2026-10-21T19:06:15.932Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
越来越多证据显示，选民在2026年中期选举前愈发担忧腐败问题。CNN周三发布的一项民调显示，19%的登记选民将腐败列为首要关注议题，仅次于经济与生活成本组合议题。
距离选举日仅剩两周之际，特朗普团队却突然接连曝出多起细节生动的涉嫌腐败事件。
诚然，由于唐纳德·特朗普总统本人对自我敛财持放任态度，以及其任内财富暴增，腐败问题一直如影随形。但近几周来，特朗普政府涉嫌腐败的案例几乎到了荒诞的地步。
仅在过去一个多月里，就出现了以下多起报道：
- 据《华尔街日报》获取的短信显示，一名已卸任的大使向一位她帮助游说特朗普政府的男子索要10万美元，以偿还其信用卡债务，还多次敦促对方不要留下书面痕迹。她的律师已否认相关指控。
- 美国国土安全部以明显虚高的价格，向前任国土安全部长的捐赠者购买了多架飞机。这位前部长与现任部长均将采购责任推给了对方。
- 一名俄罗斯寡头为小唐纳德·特朗普的婚礼庆典活动支付了数十万美元。小唐纳德·特朗普的妻子淡化称这笔交易并无不妥，但该寡头随后表示小唐纳德·特朗普已退还了这笔款项。
- 据Axios和《纽约时报》报道，一名富有的土耳其投资者向特朗普盟友转账了一笔据称高达数百万美元的资金，其中一位特朗普盟友（近期与该投资者结婚）称这笔钱被另一位特朗普盟友挪用。下文将详细介绍这起复杂的风波。
- 这位与土耳其投资者结婚的首位特朗普盟友，在担任特朗普政府司法部高级顾问期间，接受了一份年薪高达5000万美元的工作。不久后，聘用她的委内瑞拉亿万富翁银行家获得了其一直寻求的赦免。她否认与此次赦免有关。
最后这起是最新曝出的事件。
《纽约时报》的泰勒·佩杰报道称，阿利娜·哈巴与一家刚刚成立、并无公开背景的公司达成了这份5000万美元的雇佣协议。报道还显示，她在担任新泽西州美国检察官期间敲定了这笔交易，并在以特殊政府雇员身份为时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪提供建议时正式入职。
据《纽约时报》报道，她入职两周后，聘用她的委内瑞拉银行家胡利奥·埃雷拉·韦卢蒂尼获得了赦免。
哈巴否认曾发挥任何作用，她在给《纽约时报》的一份声明中表示：“任何暗示我的雇佣行为——所有相关信息都已经过审查并向司法部披露——与获得赦免有关的说法都是虚假的。”她拒绝透露自己在康科德合伙公司的工作细节。
但这甚至不是哈巴过去一周卷入的唯一争议。Axios和《纽约时报》一周前曾报道，哈巴指控特朗普盟友理查德·格伦内尔挪用了她现任丈夫——富有的土耳其投资者图尔汉·米尔顿原本打算捐赠给肯尼迪中心的数百万美元资金。
这笔钱据称被汇到了得克萨斯州一家国防和安全设备公司，格伦内尔称自己曾在此担任顾问。米尔顿在委内瑞拉拥有大量商业利益，《纽约时报》报道称，他提供了一条短信，据称格伦内尔在其中表示想让米尔顿成为“委内瑞拉问题的美国代言人”。
格伦内尔称这些指控荒谬可笑，他告诉《纽约时报》：“我从未要求过一分钱被汇往别处并谎称是捐赠给肯尼迪中心，也从未从他那里收到过任何款项。”
小唐纳德·特朗普的婚礼甚至引发了国会共和党议员的反弹，其中一些人要求对该事件展开调查。一名参议员称其为“腐败行为”。
小唐纳德·特朗普的妻子表示，这位名为奥马尔·克雷姆廖夫的寡头是“挚友”。但当ProPublica首次报道这一争议时，小唐纳德·特朗普的兄弟埃里克·特朗普的发言人表示，他“完全不知道这个人是谁，也从未听过他的名字”。
从国土安全部前部长克里斯蒂·诺埃姆的捐赠者手中购买飞机一事，导致其团队与现任国土安全部长马克韦·马林相互推诿责任，都淡化了自身在其中的作用。
马林的团队称“这些飞机是在马林部长上任国土安全部之前采购的”。
诺埃姆的声明则强调“这笔采购是在马林部长的领导下敲定的”。
而涉及前驻希腊大使金伯利· Guilfoyle（注：标准译名为金伯利·吉尔德福伊尔）的风波最终促使特朗普将其解雇。风波不仅包括她向一位寻求政府关照的男子暗中索要10万美元——该男子埃里克·德特斯乐于公开谈论此事——还包括一些令人咂舌的信息。
“如果你把钱电汇到美国运通，就不会留下任何痕迹，”吉尔德福伊尔据称在Signal短信中写道。
“埃里克，我真希望你别把这些东西都留下书面记录，”另一条短信写道。
“你真的会害我丢掉大使职位，太可怕了，别再发了，”还有一条短信写道。
曾与小唐纳德·特朗普订婚的吉尔德福伊尔否认了这些指控，称其“虚假”，并表示“我将有力捍卫我的名字、声誉和正直”。
当然，过去两年里，关注腐败问题的人还见证了其他不少引人注目的事件。特朗普通过加密货币赚得超过10亿美元。据CNN一项调查，他在买入某公司股票后不久就多次公开推荐该公司。他的社交媒体公司允许华尔街公司付费以更快获取能影响市场的帖子。他还接受了卡塔尔赠送的一架飞机作为“空军一号”使用，该机本应移交至他的总统图书馆。
但有证据表明，近期腐败问题的关注度正在上升。这并不意味着这会成为特朗普和共和党面临的重大负担，但无疑值得密切关注。
盖洛普最近的一项民调显示，创纪录的89%的美国人认为美国政府内部腐败现象普遍。
除了CNN民调显示19%的登记选民将腐败列为首要议题外，最近福克斯新闻的一项民调显示，88%的登记选民对政府腐败“极其”（60%）或“非常”（28%）担忧。这些数字堪比2006年杰克·阿布拉莫夫游说丑闻泛滥顶峰时期的数据。
最近路透社/益普索的民调显示，登记选民对特朗普处理腐败问题的不满意度为62%，满意度仅为29%。
而《华盛顿邮报》/美国广播公司新闻的民调显示，近三分之二的美国人认为特朗普利用总统职位为自己谋利。
共和党这边有一点值得庆幸：也有证据表明，这一议题可能不会像民主党希望的那样对他们有利。
CNN民调显示，登记选民在这一议题上支持民主党7个百分点，支持率为33%对26%。《纽约时报》/锡耶纳学院的民调显示，可能投票的选民支持民主党，比例为50%对39%。但路透社/益普索的民调显示双方几乎持平，31%的选民支持两党，近四成登记选民表示不支持任何一方。
尽管最近NBC新闻的民调显示，略多数的美国人（52%）认为特朗普政府“比往届政府更腐败”，但仅有25%的人认为腐败问题在共和党中比民主党中更严重。56%的人表示“两党都同样存在”腐败问题。
换言之，这些数据并未明确显示这一议题将在两周后的选举中产生何种影响。但特朗普政府似乎停不下来给民主党提供更多攻击素材。
The growing corruption allegations engulfing Trump’s orbit — at a bad time for the GOP
2026-10-21T19:06:15.932Z / CNN
There is increasing evidence that voters are concerned about corruption ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. A CNN poll on Wednesday showed 19% of registered voters say it’s their top issue — behind only a combination of the economy and the cost of living.
And two weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration is suddenly inundating them with rather vivid stories of alleged corruption.
Indeed, while the corruption issue has long stalked President Donald Trump thanks to his laissez-faire approach to self-enrichment — and his explosion of wealth during his time as president — the examples of potential Trump administration corruption in recent weeks have become almost cartoonish.
Just over the past month-plus, the following reports have surfaced:
- A now-former ambassador who asked for $100,000 to cover her credit card debt from a man she was helping lobby the administration — and repeatedly urged the man not to leave a paper trail, according to texts obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Her lawyers have denied the allegations.
- The Department of Homeland Security buying multiple airplanes from a donor to the outgoing secretary at apparently inflated prices. The former secretary and current secretary have pointed to one another for the purchases.
- A Russian oligarch paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for parts of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding celebration. Trump Jr.’s wife downplayed the idea that there was anything amiss with the arrangement, but the oligarch later said Trump Jr. had refunded the money.
- A mysterious alleged multimillion-dollar transfer from a wealthy Turkish investor that one Trump ally (who recently married the investor) claims another Trump ally misallocated, according to reports in Axios and the Times. More on that complicated mess below.
- That same first Trump ally, married to the Turkish investor, accepting a job that would pay her $50 million even as she served as a top adviser in Trump’s Justice Department — shortly before the billionaire Venezuelan banker who hired her got a pardon he had been seeking. She denied any role in the pardon.
That last one is the latest addition.
The New York Times’ Tyler Pager reported that Alina Habba secured the $50 million employment deal with a company that had only recently been set up and doesn’t have a public profile. She also reportedly finalized the deal even as she was still serving as US attorney in New Jersey, and she began the job when she was serving as a special government employee advising then-Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Two weeks after she started her job, the Venezuelan banker who hired her — Julio Herrera Velutini — received his pardon, the Times reported.
Habba has denied playing any role, saying in a statement to the Times, “Any insinuation that my employment — all of which has been vetted and disclosed to the DOJ — had anything to do with securing a pardon is false.” She would not talk about her work for the company, Concord Partners.
But that’s not even the only controversy involving Habba in the last seven days. Axios and the Times also reported a week ago about her allegation that fellow Trump ally Richard Grenell misallocated millions of dollars that her now-husband — wealthy Turkish investor Turhan Mildon — had intended as a donation for the Kennedy Center.
That money was reportedly wired to a Texas defense and security equipment company for which Grenell says he formerly consulted. Mildon has extensive business interests in Venezuela, and the Times reported he has produced a text message in which Grenell allegedly said he wanted to make Mildon the “American face down in V,” referring to Venezuela.
Grenell has called the allegations absurd, telling the Times: “I’ve never asked for one cent to be sent somewhere else pretending it was for the Kennedy Center, and I’ve never received any payment from him.”
Trump Jr.’s wedding has led to a backlash even among congressional Republicans, some of whom want the issue probed. One senator labeled it “corruption.”
Trump Jr.’s wife has said the oligarch, Umar Kremlev, is a “dear friend.” But when ProPublica first reported on the controversy, a spokesman for Trump Jr.’s brother, Eric Trump, said that he had “absolutely no clue who this person is, nor has never heard his name.”
The airplanes purchased from a donor to now-former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have led both her camp and current Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to downplay their roles and point the finger at each other.
Mullin’s camp said “these planes were purchased prior to Secretary Mullin’s arrival at DHS.”
Noem’s statement emphasized “the purchase was finalized under Secretary Mullin’s leadership.”
And the saga involving now-former Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle led Trump to fire her. It involved not just covertly seeking $100,000 from a man seeking favors from the administration — which the man, Eric Deters, has been happy to talk about publicly — but also some eyebrow-raising messages.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” Guilfoyle allegedly wrote at one point in the Signal messages.
“Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,” read another.
“What a nightmare you’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing,” read yet another.
Guilfoyle, who was previously engaged to Trump Jr., has disputed the allegations, calling them “false” and saying, “I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.”
These aren’t the only remarkable and eye-catching developments for those looking out for corruption over the last two years, of course. Trump has made more than $1 billion off cryptocurrency. He’s repeatedly promoted companies shortly after buying their stock, according to a CNN investigation. His social media company is allowing Wall Street firms to pay for quicker access to market-moving posts. And he accepted a jet as a gift from Qatar to use as Air Force One; it is supposed to be transferred to his presidential library.
But there is evidence this issue is starting to gain traction of late. That doesn’t mean it will be a huge liability for Trump and the GOP, but it’s certainly something to watch.
A Gallup poll recently showed a record-high 89% of Americans said corruption was widespread in the US government.
In addition to the CNN poll showing 19% of registered voters said it was their top issue, a recent Fox News poll showed 88% of registered voters said they were “extremely” (60%) or “very” (28%) concerned about corruption in government. Those numbers rival 2006, at the height of the sprawling Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed registered voters disapproved of Trump’s handling of corruption 62%-29%.
And a Washington Post/ABC News poll showed nearly two-thirds of Americans said Trump was using the presidency to enrich himself.
One point in the GOP’s favor here: There is also evidence that the issue might not favor Democrats as much as they’d hope.
The CNN poll showed registered voters favored the Democratic Party on the issue by 7 points, 33%-26%. And a New York Times/Siena College poll shows likely voters favor the Democrats, 50%-39%. But the Reuters-Ipsos poll showed a virtual tie, with 31% favoring both parties, and nearly 4 in 10 registered voters picking neither side.
And while a recent NBC News poll showed a slight majority of Americans (52%) said the Trump administration was “more corrupt” than previous administrations, just 25% said corruption was generally more of a problem in the Republican Party than the Democratic Party. And 56% said it was “equally” a problem in both parties.
In other words, the numbers don’t clearly illustrate how this issue will play in the election in two weeks. But the Trump administration seemingly can’t stop giving Democrats more material to work with.
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