發帖呼籲絞死奧巴馬 特朗普前管家被查

The Secret Service said it would investigate Donald J. Trump’s longtime butler over Facebook posts laced with vulgarities and epithets calling for President Obama to be killed.

美國特勤局(Secret Service)表示，該機構將對一位爲唐納德·J·特朗普(Donald J. Trump)長年服務的管家展開調查。後者此前在Facebook上發表了多篇包含粗俗言語和稱謂的帖子，呼籲處死奧巴馬總統。

The racially tinged posts by the butler, Anthony Senecal, were unearthed by Mother Jones on Thursday, and referred to Mr. Obama as a “Kenyan fraud” who should be hanged for treason.

《瓊斯母親》(Mother Jones)雜誌發現了管家安東尼·塞內卡爾(Anthony Senecal)這些含有種族主義色彩的帖子，並在週四進行了報道。塞內卡爾在帖子裏稱奧巴馬是個“肯尼亞騙子”，應該因叛國罪被絞死。

“With the last breath I draw I will help rid this America of the scum infested in its government,” Mr. Senecal wrote last May, saying that the president should be dragged from the “white mosque” and hanged “from the portico — count me in !!!!!”

“哪怕就剩最後一口氣，我也要幫助美國除掉這個寄生在政府內的敗類，”去年5月，塞內卡爾曾這樣寫道。他還表示，應該把奧巴馬從“白色清真寺”裏拖出來，絞死“在門廊上——算我一個！！！！！”

In a statement Thursday, the Secret Service said it was “aware of this matter and will conduct the appropriate investigation.”

週四，特勤局發佈了一份聲明，表示該機構已“獲知此事，並將展開相應的調查。”

Hope Hicks, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, said in an email about the posts by Mr. Senecal, “We totally and completely disavow the horrible statements made by him.” Mr. Senecal did not immediately respond to a telephone call and Facebook message seeking comment.

特朗普競選團隊的女發言人霍普·希克斯(Hope Hicks)在談論塞內卡爾帖子的郵件中表示，“我們完完全全不知曉他所做的這些可怕聲明。”塞內卡爾沒有接聽記者撥打的電話，也沒有立即迴應記者通過Facebook發出的置評請求。

The posts were revealed as Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has come under scrutiny for his associations with, and support from figures such as the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s campaign aides said a technical glitch had included William Johnson, a self-proclaimed white nationalist, on a list of California delegates they submitted to the Secretary of State’s office.

這些帖子的曝光，恰逢穩獲共和黨總統候選人提名資格的特朗普，因與前三K黨(Ku Klux Klan)頭目戴維·杜克(David Duke)等人物有關聯且得到他們支持而受到密切關注之時。週二，特朗普的競選助手錶示，因爲一項技術故障，自稱爲白人民族主義者的威廉·約翰遜(William Johnson)被列入了他們提交給國務院辦公室的加州代表名單中。

Mr. Senecal had worked almost 30 years for Mr. Trump, and was the subject of a profile in The New York Times in March. He spoke of knowing Mr. Trump’s sleeping pattens, his culinary preferences and just the right ways to cheer him up when he was in a sour mood, once hiring a bugler to play “Hail to the Chief.”

塞內卡爾已經爲特朗普工作了將近30年。今年3月，《紐約時報》曾做過一篇有關他的人物特寫。採訪中，他說起自己熟悉特朗普的睡眠模式和飲食上的偏好，也知道在特朗普情緒不好時如何讓他高興起來，比如他曾經僱了一位號手給特朗普演奏《向統帥致敬》(Hail to the Chief)。

When he tried to retire in 2009, Mr. Trump deemed him irreplaceable and kept him on as an unofficial historian at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, the article said. But in her statement, Ms. Hicks said, “Tony Senecal has not worked at Mar-a-Lago for years.”

當他在2009年表示想要退休時，特朗普認爲無人能夠替代他，因此將他留了下來，充當自己位於佛羅里達州的馬阿拉歌莊園的非正式歷史專家。但希克斯在聲明中表示，“託尼·塞內卡爾已經多年不在馬阿拉歌工作。”

Some of Mr. Senecal’s other Facebook posts aimed at Ferguson protesters and various public figures, including Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner for president, whom he called “Killery Clinton”; Beyoncé; and the Republican National Committee, which has quarreled with Mr. Trump through the nomination process. The committee members should be hanged for treason, he wrote in March.

在塞內卡爾其他的Facebook帖子中，還有一些是針對弗格森事件中的抗議者和各種公衆人物，包括最有可能獲得民主黨總統候選人提名的希拉里·克林頓(Hillary Clinton)、碧昂斯(Beyoncé)，以及共和黨全國委員會(Republican National Committee)，後者在整個提名過程中曾與特朗普發生爭執。塞內卡爾在今年3月寫道，該委員會所有成員都應該因叛國罪被絞死。他在提到希拉里·克林頓時稱其爲殺人的克林頓(Killery Clinton)。

Although some of the posts, which dated to 2015, were written publicly while others were visible only to friends, Mother Jones said that Mr. Senecal had confirmed that they were his words: “I wrote that. I believe that.”

這些帖子中最早的一些可以追溯到2015年，儘管其中有些是公開發布，但其他的都是隻有朋友可見。《瓊斯母親》雜誌表示，塞內卡爾已經承認這些帖子出自他之手：“我寫了那些東西。我想是的。”