彭斯：公開批評卻匿名抵抗特朗普總統的人應辭職
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called Sunday for the anonymous senior official carrying out inside resistance to the Trump administration to "do the honorable thing and resign."
Pence told Fox News Sunday that the official, who wrote an op-ed opinion article in The New York Times last week that called Trump amoral, was "literally violating an oath, not to the president, but to the Constitution" by seeking to undermine Trump's presidency.
Pence reiterated that he did not write the article even though it contained an unusual word — "lodestar," meaning one who serves as an inspiration — that he has used in numerous speeches. The vice president said he would agree to take a lie detector test "in a heartbeat," but said it was up to Trump to decide whether other White House officials should do the same to try to identify who wrote the article.
Pence said he does not know who wrote it. The official said he or she was part of an internal resistance "working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations."
"The root of the problem is the president's amorality," the official said, denouncing Trump's "impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective" leadership style.
Pence defended Trump's performance, saying the president promotes "a vigorous debate" within the White House over public policy issues, and then "he makes the decision. He's in command." Pence called him "a president of almost boundless energy."
Trump has railed against the writer, telling a political rally in Montana last week, "Nobody knows who the hell he is, or she. Unidentified deep state operatives who defy voters to push their secret agendas are truly a threat to democracy itself."美國副總統彭斯週日呼籲，那位匿名發表文章、稱在特朗普政府進行內部抵抗的政府高官，應該“做出真正讓人尊敬的事，辭職”。
彭斯週日對福克斯新聞表示，那位上週在紐約時報發表專欄文章、批評特朗普不道德的匿名高官，試圖破壞特朗普總統的執政活動，這“實際上違反了他對憲法，而不是對總統的誓言。”
彭斯重申他不是這篇文章的作者，儘管由於文中包含了一個他曾在衆多演講中使用過的詞 “北極星”而引發猜想。身爲副總統的彭斯表示，他同意爲此接受測謊儀測試，不過要由特朗普總統決定其他白宮官員是否也應該接受同樣的測試，以找出撰寫該文章的人。
彭斯表示他不知道文章作者是誰。這位《紐約時報》介紹爲現任特朗普政府高官的人自稱是內部抵抗力量的一部分，他或她正“試圖通過內部努力來挫敗特朗普總統的議程和他最壞的傾向。”
這位官員說，“問題的根源是總統的不道德行爲，”他譴責特朗普總統“浮躁、敵對、瑣碎、無效”的領導風格。
彭斯副總統爲特朗普的表現提出辯護，他說總統在公共政策問題上推動白宮團隊內部的“激烈辯論”，然後“他來做出決定。他是主帥。”彭斯稱特朗普爲“有着幾乎無限能量的總統”。
特朗普也對這位匿名作者進行了抨擊。他上週在蒙大拿州舉行的一次政治集會上說，“沒有人知道他，或者她，到底是誰。政府內‘影子政府’的身份不明的操縱者們無視選民，推動他們的祕密議程，這是對民主本身的真正威脅。”
