参议员 Ron Johnson 称特朗普政府内部存在腐败 白宫发声明回应
华盛顿 — 威斯康星州共和党联邦参议员 Ron Johnson 11月7日接受 Fox News 采访时表示，特朗普政府内部存在腐败，称选民原本期待本届政府「抽干沼泽」，如今看来却是「沼泽赢了」。白宫11月8日发表声明回应，称特朗普总统已经在整个联邦政府范围内对欺诈行为全面开战，让犯罪者承担责任，为纳税人省下数十亿美元。
Johnson 是特朗普的长期盟友，2010年以茶党运动成员身份首次当选参议员，现任参议院预算委员会主席。他在采访中引述前联邦卫生官员 Calley Means 近日在 Joe Rogan 播客中的说法。Means 指称，特朗普政府的高级官员与政治顾问向特殊利益集团低头，把筹款置于健康议题之上，阻挡了「让美国再次健康」（MAHA）运动推动的多项政策。Johnson 说，Means「把腐败的细节摊开来讲」，并说这种腐败存在于政府各个分支，「我很难过地说，也存在于特朗普政府内部」。
Johnson 随后在社交媒体发帖澄清，说他指控的是「每一届政府里都有的深层政府行为者」，不只是特朗普政府，并称尽管特朗普总统真诚地想要抽干沼泽，「深层政府这片沼泽依然活得好好的」。特朗普周末对记者表示：「如果有人不诚实，我认为他不只是与这个国家为敌，我认为这种不诚实也是冲着我来的。」
据《密尔沃基哨兵日报》报道，Johnson 在中期选举后的表态与他此前接受该报采访时不同：选举后他把周二的选举结果归因于媒体与教育系统。中期选举后，威斯康星州与全国多地共和党人失去席位，Johnson 将成为明年1月之后该州唯一一位全州选举产生的共和党官员。他在 Fox News 采访中还说，共和党若想赢得2028年大选，必须重新拥抱建国先贤的有限政府原则，「不能再把孩子们的未来抵押出去」。
Sen. Ron Johnson Says There Is Corruption Inside the Trump Administration; White House Responds
WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, said in a Fox News interview on November 7 that there is corruption inside the Trump administration, adding that voters had expected the government to drain the swamp but that "the swamp won." The White House responded in a statement on November 8, saying President Trump "has launched an all-out war on fraud across the entire federal government, holding criminals accountable and saving taxpayers billions of dollars."
Johnson, first elected in 2010 as part of the tea party movement and now chair of the Senate Budget Committee, cited recent claims by former top federal health official Calley Means on Joe Rogan's podcast. Means accused leading Trump aides and political advisers of bowing to special interests and powerful lobbyists, prioritizing fundraising over health, and blocking policies championed by the Make America Healthy Again movement. Johnson said Means "lays out in gory detail the corruption" across all branches of government, and added: "I'm sad to say, within the Trump administration."
Johnson later clarified in a social media post that he was accusing "deep state actors in every administration of corruption," not just the Trump administration, writing that "the deep state swamp is alive and well in spite of President Trump's sincere efforts to drain it." Trump, speaking to reporters over the weekend, said: "If somebody is dishonest, I consider them not only against the country, I consider that dishonest against me."
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Johnson's Fox News remarks differed from comments he made to the newspaper after the midterm elections, when he blamed the media and education systems for Tuesday's outcome. After January, Johnson will be the only Republican elected to a statewide office in Wisconsin. In the interview he also said Republicans need to re-embrace the founders' principle of limited government to win in 2028 and "stop mortgaging our children's future."
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图片来源：图：联邦参议员 Ron Johnson 官方肖像（第117届国会），美国参议院官方照片，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Official portrait of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (117th Congress). U.S. Senate official photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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