科米发言稿显示特朗普曾要求他效忠

President Donald Trump asked James Comey for “loyalty” four months before he fired him as Federal Bureau of Investigation director over what he called the “Russia thing”.

在美国总统唐纳德?特朗普(James Comey)解雇联邦调查局(FBI)局长詹姆斯?科米(James Comey)的4个月前，特朗普曾要求科米“效忠”于他。特朗普曾说，他解雇科米时想的是“俄罗斯那事”。

According to prepared remarks for his appearance before Congress on Thursday, Mr Comey said Mr Trump had also urged him to drop any investigation related to former national security adviser Michael Flynn having lied about talks with the Russian ambassador to the US.

科米周四出席美国国会听证会的预备发言稿显示，科米说针对前国家安全顾问迈克尔?弗林(Michael Flynn)就与俄驻美大使的谈话说谎一事，特朗普还曾敦促他放弃一切相关调查。

Mr Comey said the request was “very concerning” given the FBI’s role as an independent agency. However, the former FBI chief will also make it clear that he did not believe that Mr Trump was trying to shut down a wider probe into connections between his presidential campaign aides and Russian officials.

科米表示，鉴于FBI的角色是一家独立机构，这一要求“非常令人担忧”。然而，这位FBI前局长也将明确指出，他不认为特朗普当时是在企图终结一项针对他那些总统竞选助手与俄官员之间关系的更广泛调查。

“I could be wrong but I took him to be focusing on what had just happened with Flynn’s departure,” Mr Comey will tell the Senate intelligence committee on Thursday.

“我的理解不一定对，但我觉得他的重点在于刚刚发生的弗林离职，”科米将在周四告诉参议院情报委员会(Senate Intelligence Committee)。

His first appearance on Capitol Hill since his abrupt ousting a month ago marks one of the most consequential congressional hearings in years. Critics accuse Mr Trump of attempting to obstruct justice and make comparisons to the Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon.

科米自1个月前突然被炒后在国会山(Capitol Hill)的首次露面，是多年来意义最重大的国会听证会之一。批评人士谴责特朗普企图妨碍司法公正，并把此事跟导致理查德?尼克松(Richard Nixon)下台的“水门”(Watergate)丑闻相类比。

The White House has been dogged by the Russia scandal, which the FBI has been probing since July. Mr Trump fired Mr Flynn after just 24 days after the retired general misled Mike Pence, the vice-president, about his talks with the Russian envoy. The FBI is also looking at connections between Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s son-in-law, and Russians.

白宫一直未能摆脱通俄丑闻。自去年7月以来，FBI一直在调查此事。退役将军弗林在其与俄使节谈话问题上误导了副总统迈克?彭斯(Mike Pence)，仅24天后，特朗普就解聘了弗林。FBI还在调查特朗普女婿贾里德?库什纳(Jared Kushner)与俄罗斯人之间的关系。

In his prepared statement for the Senate hearing, Mr Comey said he had nine private conversations — three in person and six on the phone — with Mr Trump over four months. By comparison, he had only two conversations with President Barack Obama in three years.

在为参议院听证会准备的发言稿中，科米表示，他在4个月里与特朗普进行了9次私人谈话，3次是面对面交谈，6次是电话交谈。相比之下，他在3年里仅与时任总统的巴拉克?奥巴马(Barack Obama)有过2次谈话。

In the first meeting on January 6, Mr Comey told Mr Trump that the FBI did not have “an open counter-intelligence case on him”. His reassurance came after he had informed the president-elect during a private discussion about unverified claims regarding his personal behaviour, which included allegations involving prostitutes.

在1月6日的第一次会面中，科米告诉特朗普，FBI未“在进行关于他的反间谍调查”。在此之前，科米已在一次私人谈话中告诉这位当选总统，存在有关他私人行为的一些未经证实的说法，包括涉及妓女的。

Mr Comey said he grew concerned about the intentions of Mr Trump after a private dinner on January 27, which he had expected would be attended by more people. During the meeting, Mr Trump told the FBI director that “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty”. Mr Comey says he later responded by saying that “you will always get honesty from me.”

科米表示，在1月27日的一次私人晚餐之后，他开始担心特朗普的意图。他本以为那次晚餐会有更多人参加。在那次会面中，特朗普告诉科米，“我需要忠诚，我期望忠诚”。科米说，他后来回复道，“你始终会从我这里得到诚实”。

“My instincts told me that the one-on-one setting, and the pretence that this was our first discussion about my position, meant the dinner was, at least in part, an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of patronage relationship,” Mr Comey said. “That concerned me greatly, given the FBI’s traditionally independent status.”

“我的直觉告诉我，这种一对一的会面安排，以及这号称是有关我职位的第一次讨论，意味着这次晚餐最起码在一定程度上，是在试图让我争取自己的职位、并生成某种庇护关系。”科米说，“那让我非常担心，因为FBI在传统上拥有独立地位。”

Mr Comey said his concerns were heightened during a private meeting in the Oval Office on February 14, the day after Mr Flynn had been fired. After telling Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general who oversees the FBI, to leave the room, Mr Trump said: “I want to talk about Mike Flynn.”

科米表示，2月14日在椭圆形办公室(Oval Office)的一次私人会面中，他感到更加担心。一天之前，弗林刚刚被解聘。在让监管FBI的司法部长杰夫?塞申斯(Jeff Sessions)离开房间后，特朗普说：“我想谈谈弗林的事。”

“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go,” Mr Trump told Mr Comey, according to his account.

根据科米的说法，特朗普告诉科米：“我希望你能高抬贵手放过此事、放过弗林。他是个好人。我希望你能让这件事过去。”

Republicans have previously questioned why Mr Comey did not raise alarms about the situation before he was fired. In his prepared remarks, he said he had decided not to tell Mr Sessions — who had been a Trump campaign adviser — because he expected that he was going to recuse himself from any Russia-related investigations.

对于科米为何在被解聘之前不就这个情况发出警告，共和党人此前曾提出质疑。科米在他预备的发言稿中表示，他当时决定不告诉塞申斯（塞申斯此前一直是特朗普的竞选顾问），是因为他预期塞申斯将在任何与俄罗斯有关的调查中自请回避。

He said he later asked Mr Sessions to ensure that he was never left alone with the president in future because it was “inappropriate” but that Mr Sessions “did not reply”.

科米表示，他后来要求塞申斯保证未来再也不让他跟总统单独相处，因为这么做“不合适”，但塞申斯“没有回答”。

Mr Comey also detailed several phone calls with the president. In the first on March 30, Mr Trump called the Russia probe “a cloud” that was impairing his ability to govern and asked what the FBI could do to “lift the cloud”. Mr Trump denied having anything to do with Russia, said he had no involvement with “hookers”, and had always assumed his conversations in Russia were recorded.

科米还详细描述了他与特朗普的多次电话通话。第一次是在3月30日，特朗普称此次通俄调查是“一片阴云”，损害他的治理能力，并询问FBI可以为“驱散阴云”做些什么。特朗普否认与俄存在任何瓜葛，否认与“妓女”有染，还说他原本就一直假定他在俄罗斯的谈话被录下来了。

Mr Comey said he informed Mr Trump that he had told congressional leaders that the FBI was not investigating Mr Trump personally, prompting Mr Trump to repeatedly reply: “We need to get that fact out”, according to Mr Comey.

据科米表示，他当时告诉特朗普，他已告知国会领袖FBI并没有在对特朗普个人进行调查，这引得特朗普反复回答道：“我们需要公开这个事实”。