特朗普力挺拉马斯瓦米争议广告 施压共和党内异见人士Trump Backs Ramaswamy's Contentious Ad, Piling Pressure on Dissenting Republicans

维韦克·拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队投入400万美元在电视和社交媒体上推广一则攻击性广告，重点引入其民主党对手艾米·阿克顿多年未联系的亲生母亲唐娜·亚瑟。亚瑟在视频中公开反驳阿克顿关于早年无家可归和曾遭继父性虐待的陈述，直指阿克顿为“骗子”，并呼吁俄亥俄州选民不要投票支持其竞选州长。阿克顿表示自1978年即其12岁时起就再未见过母亲，当时亚瑟失去对子女的监护权，其再婚配偶则因涉嫌对年幼的阿克顿实施性侵而遭到刑事起诉。

Vivek Ramaswamy's gubernatorial campaign committed $4 million to run an attack commercial on television and across social media, built around the candidate's Democratic rival Amy Acton and her estranged birth mother, Donna Arthur. In the broadcast, Arthur directly challenges Acton's public accounts of childhood homelessness and sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, characterizing her daughter as a liar and urging Ohio voters to reject her candidacy. Acton has stated that she has not seen her mother since 1978, when Acton was 12 years old, after Arthur lost custody of her children and the man Arthur married faced criminal charges for sexual abuse.

竞选团队公开的法庭记录显示，亚瑟已故的前夫曾被指控强奸阿克顿，案发时阿克顿年仅10至12岁；涉案男子当时坚称无罪并在获得保释后潜逃离开当地，导致该案从未正式进入法庭审理。阿克顿的哥哥菲利普·斯特恩斯出面声援妹妹，严厉斥责该广告是“绝望且令人作呕的攻击”；竞选发言人艾迪·布洛克亦发表声明，指责拉马斯瓦米大肆宣扬此类攻击内容的行为卑劣，且完全暴露出其政治算计。

Court records provided by Acton's campaign show Arthur's now-deceased husband was indicted on charges of raping Acton when she was between 10 and 12 years old; he pleaded not guilty and fled the area after posting bond, meaning the prosecution never proceeded to trial. Acton's brother, Philip Stearns, corroborated her account of the childhood abuse and denounced the advertisement as a desperate, disgusting attack. Campaign spokesperson Addie Bullock similarly condemned Ramaswamy's decision to promote the commercial, describing the move as both despicable and completely predictable amid an increasingly contentious race.

周四，唐纳德·特朗普在社交平台Truth Social发文，将拉马斯瓦米投放的广告形容为“极有力的广告”，并声称新闻媒体正发起协调一致的攻击逼迫拉马斯瓦米撤除广告，只因该广告“效果太好”。特朗普在帖文中称赞阿克顿的母亲展现了公开指斥女儿的勇气，并提出任何人的母亲若以这种方式评价女儿，通常都会导致该女儿失去出任公职的资格，更不用说是出任州长一职。帖文并未提及阿克顿与其生母疏远数十年的背景，也没有提到阿克顿家庭中涉及性侵指控的司法过往。

President Donald Trump praised the broadcast as a "very powerful ad" on Thursday in a Truth Social post, claiming that news media outlets were orchestrating a coordinated campaign to force Vivek Ramaswamy to pull it off the air because it was so effective. In his post, Trump commended Donna Arthur for showing the courage to speak out against her daughter, arguing that any candidate whose mother described her in that manner would typically be disqualified from holding public office, let alone serving as governor. His online statements made no reference to the reasons behind the decades-long estrangement between Amy Acton and her birth mother, nor did they acknowledge the criminal charges involving Acton's family history.

周四当晚在爱荷华州举行的一场竞选集会上，特朗普向在场人群透露，拉马斯瓦米曾亲自致电向其征询建议，询问面对外界舆论是否应当撤回该广告。特朗普表示，自己当时直截了当地告诉拉马斯瓦米必须保留广告播出，还告诉对方应该“抬头看着上方说非常感谢上帝”。特朗普借助此次集会向共和党党内施加压力，要求全党接纳该广告，并促使党内异见人士与自己的立场保持一致。

Speaking to a crowd at an Iowa rally that same evening, Trump revealed that Ramaswamy had called him directly seeking counsel on whether the campaign ought to take down the controversial commercial. Trump recounted telling Ramaswamy to leave the advertisement on the air, adding that the candidate should look upstairs and thank God for the spot. Trump used his remarks at the event to pressure fellow Republicans to fall in line and fully embrace the commercial.

俄亥俄州现任共和党州长迈克·德瓦恩在州议会大厦对媒体明确表示，拉马斯瓦米投放该则广告是错误的，敦促其竞选团队将其撤下。德瓦恩提及自己早年担任县检察官以及俄亥俄州总检察长的公职生涯，回忆起过往处理强奸受害者案件时的痛苦经历。他向媒体说明，自己的妻子弗兰当天早晨在电视上看到了这则广告，自己即便在选战较晚阶段仍呼吁停止播出，但他并未收回对拉马斯瓦米的竞选背书。

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine publicly urged Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign to take down the broadcast, telling reporters at the Ohio Statehouse that running the commercial was fundamentally wrong. Drawing on his past professional background as a county prosecutor and state attorney general, the Republican governor recalled the painful experiences of rape victims he had encountered during his legal career. DeWine noted that his wife, Fran, had just seen the commercial broadcast on television that morning, emphasizing his push to remove the spot even at this late stage of the campaign, though he stopped short of rescinding his endorsement of Ramaswamy.

特朗普对德瓦恩的表态迅速予以反击，公开批评这位俄亥俄州州长对共和党“不忠诚”。副总统JD·万斯周三与拉马斯瓦米及俄亥俄州联邦参议员乔恩·赫斯特德一同出席竞选活动时，同样直接为该广告辩护。针对部分共和党人指责该广告品味低下且手段低劣的声音，万斯公开表达了反感，批评那些抱怨该广告的党内同僚，显示出白宫高层坚决压制党内质疑意见的立场。

Donald Trump quickly condemned DeWine's stance, directly attacking the Ohio governor as disloyal to the Republican Party. Vice President JD Vance similarly defended the commercial while campaigning on Wednesday alongside Ramaswamy and Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted. Vance brushed aside internal party pushback, expressing disgust toward fellow Republicans who complained about the attack as low and in poor taste, reinforcing the administration's broader effort to shut down internal resistance.

在白宫南草坪接受媒体提问时，记者向唐纳德·特朗普当面陈述了该案的核心背景，指出阿克顿的生母当年在丈夫被控强奸阿克顿后仍选择维持婚姻关系。针对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻部（CBS News）资深白宫记者江维佳关于为何还要听信这位疏远母亲言论的追问，特朗普当场两次辩解称自己对阿克顿家庭过往背景细节“毫不知情”，坚称自己只知道这位母亲公开指斥了阿克顿许多非常糟糕的事情。

During an exchange with reporters on the White House South Lawn, Donald Trump was directly presented with the factual background of the case, including court records indicating that Amy Acton's estranged mother chose to stay married to the man charged with raping her daughter. When CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang asked why anyone should listen to what the estranged mother has to say under those circumstances, Trump responded twice by stating that he knew nothing about the specific family history, adding that all he knew was that the mother had made very negative claims against Acton.

面对在场记者提及共和党党内同行对涉嫌幼童性虐待案件被政治化的深切忧虑，特朗普并未改变原有论调，反而坚持主张该母亲的公开言论必须受到严肃对待。特朗普直言，“哪怕只有一点属实，选民也不会希望她出任州长”，坚持将母亲的负面指控作为判定阿克顿是否适合竞选的关键依据，直接忽略了司法起诉记录与阿克顿亲属对童年受害经历的澄清证词。

Even as journalists pointed out concerns voiced by fellow Republicans regarding the weaponization of alleged child sexual abuse, Trump doubled down on his support for the political broadcast. The president argued that Donna Arthur's accusations still had to be taken seriously regardless of the surrounding circumstances, declaring that even if the claims were only a little bit true, voters would not want Acton serving as governor, thereby keeping the political focus squarely on the mother's accusations rather than the documented abuse allegations against her late husband.