2026-10-08T11:30:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
一张在社交媒体上流传并经CBS新闻核实的照片显示，白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯之女凯蒂·怀尔斯近期前往了由亲俄塞尔维亚强人米洛拉德·多迪克掌控的波斯尼亚自治领土塞族共和国。
这张照片进一步引发了人们对白宫与这位亲俄政客之间可能存在关联的质疑。此前《纽约时报》报道称，两名特朗普高级政治顾问上周前往塞族共和国，协助多迪克的亲俄政党参与波斯尼亚选举，特朗普总统周三已与两人划清界限。
这张最初由阿尔巴尼亚裔美国保守派活动人士埃维·科卡拉里分享的照片显示，凯蒂·怀尔斯手持步枪，站在一名被CBS新闻确认身份的男子身旁——该男子是半自治的塞族共和国行政机构内政部长热利科·布迪米尔。@evikokalari / X
这张由阿尔巴尼亚裔美国保守派活动人士埃维·科卡拉里分享的照片显示，怀尔斯手持步枪，站在被CBS新闻确认身份的热利科·布迪米尔身旁，后者是半自治的塞族共和国行政机构内政部长。科卡拉里在X平台的帖子中称，这张照片拍摄于8月。CBS新闻核实确认，照片中的女子确实是凯蒂·怀尔斯，且拍摄地点为塞族共和国。这张照片似乎是怀尔斯个人Instagram账号帖子的截图，配文为“大多是工作 + 一些正经的乐趣！”
CBS新闻通过卫星影像和照片拍摄地射击场的过往社交媒体帖子，证实了这张照片的真实性。照片中太阳的位置也表明，拍摄时间为夏季。CBS新闻还确认，照片中的女子就是凯蒂·怀尔斯。
据波斯尼亚媒体报道，位于塞族共和国北部的RIS射击场是内政部长布迪米尔常去的地方。
根据其官网信息，凯蒂·怀尔斯是华盛顿特区大型政治游说公司大陆战略（Continental Strategy）的合伙人。
该公司发言人周四向CBS新闻证实，怀尔斯于8月中旬前往该地，但此行是为大陆战略的另一位客户开展业务。
“凯蒂·怀尔斯于8月中旬随一家美国公司赴该国访问了两天，该公司受邀在该地区开展可行性研究，”发言人说道。“怀尔斯为这家美国公司提供战略沟通支持，这项合作已持续两年多。怀尔斯未就塞族共和国问题与任何美国政府官员进行过交谈。”
CBS新闻已向大陆战略询问该公司的名称。
CBS新闻查阅的美国外国代理人登记文件（FARA）显示，大陆战略于2026年初注册，为塞族共和国进行游说。
“苏西不会和女儿们讨论工作事宜，”一名白宫官员周四对CBS新闻表示。
该公司今年提交的另一份FARA文件显示，特朗普总统竞选团队前副政治总监亚历杭德罗·加西亚作为塞族共和国的顾问签署了文件。加西亚同时也是大陆战略的合伙人。
这家游说公司的发言人告诉CBS新闻，加西亚于10月4日波斯尼亚选举日当天到场，“团队其他成员均未在场”。
“加西亚是唯一与美国政府就塞族共和国问题进行过接触的人员，他的所有接触都已按FARA要求进行了细致记录并将上报，”发言人说道。
白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯上月与米洛拉德·多迪克的亲密盟友热利卡·茨维亚诺维奇举行了会晤，一名白宫官员告诉CBS新闻，这次会晤是由加西亚安排的，而非凯蒂·怀尔斯。
周二，《纽约时报》报道称，参与共和党中期选举工作的两名关键共和党战略师詹姆斯·布莱尔和克里斯·拉西维塔上周部分时间待在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那这个小型自治领土上，协助多迪克的政党开展竞选活动。凯蒂·怀尔斯并未参与特朗普的任何政治运作。
根据CBS新闻审查的FARA文件，由多迪克政党掌控的塞族共和国与弗拉基米尔·普京领导的俄罗斯政府建立了密切联系，同时斥巨资聘请美国游说公司，以结交特朗普的盟友。
塞尔维亚分裂主义领导人多迪克近期曾任塞族共和国总统，长期被指控破坏美国斡旋的《代顿和平协议》——该协议结束了上世纪90年代波斯尼亚、克罗地亚和塞尔维亚之间的血腥教派冲突。萨拉热窝一家法院去年裁定多迪克违反1995年波斯尼亚和平协议条款，随后波斯尼亚选举机构解除了他的总统职务，并禁止其担任政治公职。
特朗普先生周三在Truth Social平台发帖称，他“完全不知道”拉西维塔和布莱尔在为谁工作，并承诺“如果存在利益冲突，我会立即解雇他们！”
周三晚些时候，特朗普先生的语气似乎略有缓和。
“他们不存在利益冲突，因为他们是独立人士。你们知道，他们不为我工作，”特朗普先生在椭圆形办公室对记者说道。“他们是顾问，我猜他们有很多客户。我不知道他们的客户是谁。如果我认为他们在这里存在利益冲突，我会解雇他们。”
正如CBS新闻本周报道的那样，一家与特朗普盟友有关联的美国企业参与波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那价值逾15亿美元的能源项目，引发了人们对白宫与多迪克关系的质疑。
上月，众议院民主党人发布报告，指控特朗普政府解除对多迪克的制裁，目的是为了让特朗普的盟友获利并增强其势力，同时在此过程中破坏美国在该地区长期的外交政策利益。
报告的核心指控是，去年在美国注册的AAFS基础设施与能源公司，由特朗普前私人律师杰西·宾纳尔和特朗普盟友迈克尔·弗林将军的兄弟约瑟夫·弗林担任负责人，在对多迪克的制裁解除后，获得了波斯尼亚和克罗地亚之间一条关键天然气管道的建设合同——而多迪克此前曾反对该项目。
报告中引用并经CBS新闻审查的FARA文件显示，特朗普前国家安全顾问迈克尔·弗林于2025年10月受雇为塞族共和国的说客，而正是在那个月，对多迪克的制裁被解除。
制裁解除后的六个月内，拥有波斯尼亚议会否决权的多迪克政党放弃了反对立场，波斯尼亚议会通过立法，将AAFS指定为这个数十亿美元项目的主要开发商。
白宫上周拒绝就该管道项目置评，但一名政府官员表示，解除对多迪克的制裁是为了防止巴尔干地区出现不稳定局势。
“这再次体现了特朗普总统务实且有远见的外交政策，避免了其前任们屡屡陷入的长期问题灾难，”一名白宫官员周五对CBS新闻说道，未具体说明特朗普政府避免了何种灾难。
Photo shows top Trump aide’s daughter with pro-Russia politician in Bosnia
2026-10-08T11:30:00-0400 / CBS News
An image circulated on social media and verified by CBS News shows Katie Wiles, the daughter of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, recently traveled to Republika Srpska, the Bosnian-controlled territory led by pro-Russian Serb strongman Milorad Dodik.
The photo raises further questions about possible White House links to the pro-Russian politician. President Trump on Wednesday distanced himself from two top political advisers after the New York Times reported they had traveled to Republika Srpska last week to assist Dodik’s pro-Russia party in Bosnian elections.
The image, initially shared online by conservative Albanian American activist Evi Kokalari, shows Katie Wiles holding a rifle and standing next to a man CBS News has identified as Željko Budimir, the interior minister of the semi-autonomous Republika Srpska administration. @evikokalari/ X
The image, shared online by conservative Albanian American activist Evi Kokalari, shows Wiles holding a rifle and standing next to a man CBS News has identified as Željko Budimir, the interior minister of the semi-autonomous Republika Srpska administration. In a post on X, Kokalari claimed the image was taken in August. CBS News Confirmed has verified the image is of Wiles and that it was taken in Republika Srpska. The image appears to be a screenshot of a story from Wiles’ personal Instagram account, with a caption “mostly work + some serious fun!”
CBS News confirmed the veracity of the images through satellite imagery and previous social media posts from the shooting range where the image was captured. The position of the sun in the image also indicates that it was taken in the summer. CBS News was also able to confirm that the woman in the photo is Katie Wiles.
The RIS shooting range is located in northern Republika Srpska and is frequented by Budimir, the interior minister, according to Bosnian media reports.
Katie Wiles is a partner at Continental Strategy, a large political lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C., according to its website.
A spokesperson for the firm acknowledged to CBS News Thursday that Wiles had taken the trip in mid-August but on business for another client of Continental Strategy.
“Katie Wiles visited the country in mid-August for two days with a U.S.-based company who was invited to do a feasibility study in the region,” the spokesperson said. “Wiles provides strategic communications support to this US company and has done so for over two years. Wiles has not spoken with any United States Government official regarding Srpska.”
CBS News has asked Continental Strategy for the name of the company.
U.S. foreign agent registration filings FARA reviewed by CBS News show that Continental Strategy registered to lobby on behalf of Republika Srpska in early 2026.
“Susie does not discuss work matters with her daughters,” a White House official told CBS News Thursday.
Another FARA filing from the same firm this year lists the signature of Alejandro Garcia, a former deputy political director for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, as a consultant for Republika Srpska. Garcia is also a partner at Continental Strategy.
The lobbying firm’s spokesperson told CBS News that Garcia attended Bosnia’s election day on Oct. 4 “but no other member of the team was present.”
“Garcia is the sole person who has interacted with the United States government regarding Srpska, and his contacts have all been meticulously tracked to be reported in accordance with FARA requirements,” the spokesperson said.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met with Željka Cvijanović, a close ally of Milorad Dodik, last month, and a White House official told CBS News that meeting was arranged by Garcia, not by Katie Wiles.
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that James Blair and Chris LaCivita, two key GOP strategists in the Republicans’ midterm election efforts, spent some of last week in the small, self-governing territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina to help Dodik’s party with its own campaigning. Katie Wiles has no such involvement with Mr. Trump’s political operation.
Under the control of Dodik’s party, Republika Srpska has forged close ties with President Vladimir Putin’s government in Russia, while also spending heavily on U.S.-based lobbying firms to court associates of Mr. Trump, according to FARA filings reviewed by CBS News.
Serbian secessionist leader Dodik, who until recently served as the president of Republika Srpska, has long been accused of undermining the U.S.-brokered Dayton Accords, which ended the bloody sectarian violence between Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia in the 1990s. A Sarajevo court last year convicted Dodik of failing to comply with the terms of Bosnia’s 1995 peace accords. He was then removed as president and banned from holding political office by Bosnia’s electoral authorities.
In a Truth Social post Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he did not “have any idea” who LaCivita and Blair had been working for and he pledged, “if there’s a conflict, I will terminate them, immediately!”
Later Wednesday, Mr. Trump appeared to slightly soften his language.
“They don’t have a conflict, because they’re independent people. You know, they don’t work for me,” Mr. Trump said, addressing reporters in the Oval Office. “They are consultants and I assume they have a lot of clients. I don’t know who their clients are. If I thought they had a conflict here, I would terminate them.”
As CBS News reported this week, the involvement of a U.S. firm linked to associates of Mr. Trump in an energy project in Bosnia and Herzegovina worth more than $1.5 billion has raised questions about the White House’s relationship with Dodik.
Last month, House Democrats published a report accusing the Trump administration of lifting sanctions against Dodik in an effort to enrich and empower allies of Mr. Trump, and of undermining longstanding U.S. foreign policy interests in the region in the process.
The central allegation is that AAFS Infrastructure & Energy, a company incorporated in the U.S. last year and headed by Mr. Trump’s former personal attorney Jesse Binnall and Joseph Flynn, the brother of Trump ally Gen. Michael Flynn, secured the contract to build a key gas pipeline between Bosnia and Croatia after the sanctions were lifted against Dodik, who had previously opposed the development.
FARA filings cited in the report and reviewed by CBS News show that Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, worked as a paid lobbyist for Republika Srpska in October 2025, the month during which the sanctions against Dodik were lifted.
Within six months of the sanctions being lifted, Dodik’s party, which has veto power in Bosnia’s legislature, dropped its opposition and the Bosnian parliament passed legislation naming AAFS as the lead developer on the billion-dollar project.
The White House declined to comment on the pipeline project last week, but an administration official said the sanctions against Dodik were lifted to prevent instability in the Balkans.
“This is yet another example of President Trump’s pragmatic, farseeing foreign policy that has prevented disasters on perennial issues that his predecessors so often stumbled into,” a White House official told CBS News on Friday, without elaborating on the type of disasters the Trump administration was preventing.