美國共和黨參議員將特朗普比作斯大林

Jeff Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, launched a scorching attack on President Donald Trump, comparing him to Stalin for his relentless criticisms of the “fake news media”.

亞利桑那州的共和黨參議員傑夫弗萊克(Jeff Flake)對美國總統唐納德特朗普(Donald Trump)發起了一次猛烈抨擊，因特朗普不斷批評“假新聞媒體”而將其比作斯大林(Stalin)。

Mr Flake, one of the most vocal Republican critics of Mr Trump, castigated the president over his comments about the media, which he last year called the “enemy of the people”.

作爲最敢於批評特朗普的共和黨人之一，弗萊克就這位總統對媒體的評論——特朗普去年稱媒體是“人民公敵”——對其進行了嚴厲批評。

“It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies,” Mr Flake, who is not seeking re-election, said in a searing speech. “When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn’t suit him ‘fake news’ it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press.”

弗萊克在一場辛辣的演講中表示：“我們自己的總統竟用了約瑟夫斯大林(Josef Stalin)形容自己敵人時所說的臭名昭著的用語，這說明了我們的民主所處的狀態。當一個掌權者條件反射式地稱所有不合他意的新聞爲‘假新聞’時，這個人才該成爲被懷疑的對象，而不是新聞界。”弗萊克沒有尋求連任。