SANTUL NERKAR2025年10月9日In March 2019, the night before a fund-raiser at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, a zealous supporter passed out thousands of dollars in cash in a Florida hotel room, according to federal prosecutors.联邦检察官称，2019年3月，在特朗普总统马阿拉歌庄园筹款活动的前一晚，一名狂热支持者在佛罗里达州某酒店房间内分发数万美元现金。The supporter, Xinyue Lou, had struck a deal with Mr. Trump’s fund-raising committee: If he raised $25,000, he would receive two V.I.P. tickets to the event and two slots for attendees to take photos with Mr. Trump.这位名叫楼新跃的支持者曾与特朗普的筹款委员会达成协议：若他募集到2.5万美元，将获得两张活动VIP门票，且有两个与特朗普合影的名额。He had secured the money, and on this night, he was repaying the people who had helped conceal its true source, the prosecutors said.检察官表示，楼新跃筹到了这笔钱，当晚他在向那些协助隐瞒资金真实来源的人返还钱款。Mr. Lou, also known as Daniel, had recruited so-called straw donors to support Mr. Trump’s re-election efforts, according to prosecutors. They had given money on behalf of an unnamed Chinese national who wanted to attend the event and take a photo with Mr. Trump, but could not make campaign contributions as a foreigner, according to prosecutors.检察官指出，楼新跃（英文名丹尼尔）招募了所谓的“代捐者”，为特朗普的连任竞选助力。这些捐赠者受一名匿名中国公民委托捐款——该中国公民希望参加活动并与特朗普合影，但因外国公民身份无法进行竞选捐款。Last year, prosecutors said Mr. Lou’s efforts were criminal. He had sought to circumvent campaign contribution limits, they said, by concealing the source of the donations.去年，检方认定楼新跃的行为构成犯罪，称其通过隐瞒捐款来源，试图规避竞选捐款限额。Mr. Lou, who lives in Staten Island, is now on trial in a Brooklyn federal courtroom. His case, which came as part of a Justice Department investigation into illegal contributions made by Chinese nationals during the 2020 election, was charged under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. It is now in the hands of Mr. Trump’s Justice Department.现居斯塔滕岛的楼新跃目前正在布鲁克林联邦法院受审。此案源于司法部对2020年大选期间中国公民非法捐款的调查，最初在小约瑟夫·拜登任内提起诉讼，如今案件已移交特朗普政府的司法部处理。“American elections are supposed to be decided by Americans,” Turner Buford, a federal prosecutor, said Tuesday during opening statements in Mr. Lou’s trial, which is expected to last one week.“美国的选举应由美国人决定，”联邦检察官特纳·布福德周二在楼新跃案的开庭陈述中表示，该案审理预计将持续一周。Mr. Trump has long railed against what he says is a system of justice that has been turned against him and his supporters. In his second term, he has sought retribution, pushing for charges against his adversaries. He has pardoned supporters convicted of crimes, and his Justice Department has ended investigations of them.长期以来，特朗普一直抨击司法体系针对自己、甚至自己的支持者。在第二任期内，他寻求报复，推动对政敌提起指控，同时赦免被判有罪的支持者，他的司法部终止了对这些人的调查。In a filing last month, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York sought to prevent Mr. Lou’s lawyers from arguing that he had been the victim of selective prosecution because of his support for Mr. Trump.上个月提交的一份文件显示，纽约东区联邦检察官试图阻止楼新跃的律师做出其因支持特朗普而遭受针对性检控的抗辩。“There is absolutely no evidence that the defendant was selectively prosecuted,” the prosecutors wrote. They added that Mr. Lou should not be able to argue that he was being prosecuted “simply because of his support for” Mr. Trump.检察官在文件中写道：“没有任何证据表明被告遭到了针对性检控。”他们还称，不应允许楼新跃做出自己“仅仅因为支持特朗普”而遭到检控的抗辩。Lawyers for Mr. Lou have sought to exclude certain evidence from the trial, including witness statements, that would suggest Mr. Lou was “coordinating a shadowy effort to steer Chinese funds to President Trump’s re-election campaign.”楼新跃的律师试图将某些包括证人证词在内的证据排除在庭审之外，这些证据表示楼新跃“暗中协调将中国资金引入特朗普的连任竞选活动”。Brett Parker, a lawyer for Mr. Lou, on Tuesday described his client as focused on “proving his value” to the campaign.周二，楼新跃的律师布雷特·帕克称其当事人一心向竞选团队“证明自身价值”。“Mr. Lou is a proud supporter of Donald Trump,” Mr. Parker said. “He wanted the campaign to know there was a strong base of Chinese Americans who also supported Mr. Trump.”“娄先生是唐纳德·特朗普的忠实支持者，”帕克表示，“他希望竞选团队知道，有庞大的华裔美国人群体也支持特朗普。”“Frankly, he wanted a photo with Mr. Trump,” Mr. Parker added.“坦白说，他希望能与特朗普合影，”帕克还说。Neither Mr. Trump nor the Republican Party is accused of wrongdoing. Mr. Buford on Tuesday described Mr. Trump’s campaign as being a victim of Mr. Lou’s scheme, and said that a photo with Mr. Trump that the defendant did eventually take was one “he did not earn.” A representative for the Republican National Committee did not respond to a request for comment.特朗普本人及共和党均未被指控存在不当行为。布福德周二称，特朗普的竞选团队是楼新跃阴谋的受害者，并表示楼新跃最终与特朗普合影的机会是他“不配得到的”。共和党全国委员会发言人未回应置评请求。China’s broad attempts to influence politics in the United States — its main geopolitical rival — have caught the attention of federal prosecutors in recent years.近年来，美国的主要地缘政治竞争对手中国试图广泛影响美国政治的行为，已引起联邦检察官的关注。In New York City, social clubs backed by the Chinese government have quietly tried to influence local elections. Linda Sun, a former aide to two New York governors, was indicted last year on charges that she was working as an unauthorized Chinese agent. In July, a Republican donor from Long Island pleaded guilty to charges that she had swindled Chinese investors who paid millions to gain access to Mr. Trump and to secure investors’ visas.在纽约市，有中国政府背景的社交俱乐部曾暗中试图影响地方选举。曾担任两位纽约州长助手的孙雯去年被起诉，罪名是作为未登记的中国代理人开展活动。今年7月，长岛一名共和党捐赠者承认了诈骗中国投资者的罪名——这些投资者支付数以百万计的美元，只为获得与特朗普见面的机会及投资者签证。In 2020 and in 2022, the Federal Election Commission informed Mr. Lou that he was under investigation. He was interviewed by F.B.I. agents in late February and early March 2024, and was soon after charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of making contributions in the name of others.联邦选举委员会曾在2020年和2022年通知楼新跃其正被调查。2024年2月底至3月初，联邦调查局特工对他进行了讯问，不久后他被指控犯有合谋欺诈美国罪和以他人名义捐款两项罪名。Mr. Lou, a Chinese American businessman, told agents that he had once worked for the Chinese government’s press office, which manufactures propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party, according to prosecutors, and that he frequently traveled to China in the 2010s and met with government officials there.检察官称，华裔美国商人楼新跃告诉特工，他曾在中国政府的新闻办公室工作（该机构为中国共产党制作宣传内容），且在2010年代频繁前往中国，与当地政府官员会面。Since 2016, Mr. Lou has contributed nearly $100,000 to Mr. Trump’s re-election efforts, other Republican candidates and Republican causes more broadly, according to F.E.C. filings. Mr. Lou, who has been out on bail, was allowed by Judge Ann M. Donnelly to travel to Washington to attend Mr. Trump’s inauguration in January.联邦选举委员会文件显示，自2016年以来，楼新跃累计向特朗普的连任竞选活动、其他共和党候选人及共和党相关事业捐赠了近10万美元。经安·唐纳利法官许可，目前处于保释状态的楼新跃于今年1月前往华盛顿参加特朗普的就职典礼。Prosecutors plan to show jurors emails between Mr. Lou and an unnamed co-conspirator who provided the money, and messages sent to the people he recruited for the scheme before the 2019 fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago. According to prosecutors, Mr. Lou and the co-conspirator discussed “various budgeting scenarios” that would allow them to gain access to the event and obtain photos with Mr. Trump.检察官计划向陪审团展示楼新跃与一名匿名同谋者（资金提供者）的电子邮件，以及2019年马阿拉歌庄园筹款活动前他发给“代捐者”的信息。检察官称，楼新跃与该同谋者曾讨论“多种预算方案”，以确保能进入活动现场并与特朗普合影。But after Mr. Lou secured the tickets to the event, he was told by the fund-raising committee that the Chinese nationals on his guest list could not take a photo with Mr. Trump, because they were not American, prosecutors said. He expressed his disappointment, saying he had “made so much effort to raise the funds.”但检察官表示，楼新跃拿到活动门票后，筹款委员会告知他，其嘉宾名单中的中国公民无法与特朗普合影，因为他们不是美国公民。楼新跃表达了失望，称自己“为筹款付出了巨大努力”。“Well, a rule is a rule and I am happy to respect and follow it,” Mr. Lou wrote back over email, according to prosecutors.检察官透露，楼新跃在回复邮件中写道：“好吧，规则就是规则，我愿意尊重并遵守。”Santul Nerkar是时报记者，报道布鲁克林的联邦法院。翻译：纽约时报中文网点击查看本文英文版。