【Republicans, conservatives, I am sorry.共和黨人，保守派，對不起。
I also believed wholesale so much else that has since turned out not to be as I was told it was by NPR, MSNBC and 我還相信很多其他東西，後來證明並不像 NPR、MSNBC 和The New York Times紐約時報告訴我的那樣. 。
I believed that stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian propaganda. Dozens of former intel officials said so. Johns Hopkins University said so. [我認為有關亨特·拜登筆記本電腦的故事是俄羅斯的宣傳。數十名前英特爾官員這樣說。約翰霍普金斯大學是這麽說的。[ https://sais.jhu.edu/news-press/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinformation-dozens-former-intel-officials-say]https://sais.jhu.edu/news-press/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinformation-dozens-former-intel-officials-say] .。
“Trump specifically cited a “laptop” that contained emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden”, said ‘CNN Fact-Check’, with plenty of double quote marks. [“特朗普特別引用了一台‘筆記本電腦’，其中包含據稱屬於亨特·拜登的電子郵件”，“CNN Fact-Check”用大量雙引號表示。[ https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_036fb62c-377f-4c68-8fa5-b98418e4bb9chttps://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_036fb62c-377f-4c68-8fa5-b98418e4bb9c ]]
I believed this all — til it was debunked. 我相信這一切——直到它被揭穿。
I believed that President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia — until that assertion was dropped. [我相信特朗普總統的競選活動與俄羅斯勾結——直到這一斷言被撤銷。[ https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation/https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation/ ] ]
I believed that President Trump was a Russian asset, because the legacy media I read, said so [我相信特朗普總統是俄羅斯的資產，因為我讀過的傳統媒體是這麽說的 [ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-bookhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-克格勃間諜新書]. ]。
I believed in the entire Steele dossier, until I didn’t, because it all fell apart. [我相信整個斯蒂爾檔案，直到我不相信，因為它都崩潰了。[ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63305382https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63305382 ]. ]。
Was there in fact an “infamous pee tape”? So many other bad things were being said about the man — why not? [真的有“臭名昭著的小便膠帶”嗎？關於這個人還有很多其他的壞話——為什麽不呢？[ https://www.businessinsider.com/christopher-steele-trump-pee-tape-probably-exists-2021-10https://www.businessinsider.com/christopher-steele-trump-pee-tape-probably-exists-2021-10 ]]
I believed that Pres Trump instigated the riot at the Capitol — because I did not know that his admonition to his supporters to assemble “peacefully and patriotically” had been deleted from all of the news coverage that I read. [我相信特朗普總統煽動了國會大廈的騷亂——因為我不知道他對他的支持者“和平和愛國”集會的警告已經從我讀到的所有新聞報道中刪除了。[ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/trump-team-hoping-peacefully-and-patriotically-will-be-shieldhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/trump-team-hoping-peacefully-and-patriotically-will-be-shield ]]
Because of lies such as these in legacy media — lies which I and millions of others believed — half of our nation’s electorate was smeared and delegitimized, and I myself was misled. 由於傳統媒體中的此類謊言——我和數百萬其他人都相信這些謊言——我們國家一半的選民被抹黑並失去了合法性，而我自己也被誤導了。
It damages our nation when legacy media put words in the mouths of Presidents and former Presidents, and call them traitors or criminals without evidence. 當傳統媒體在總統和前總統的口中發表言論，並在沒有證據的情況下稱他們為叛徒或罪犯時，這會損害我們的國家。
It damages our country when we cannot tell truth from lies. This is exactly what tyrants seek — an electorate that cannot know what is truth and what is falsehood. 當我們無法分辨謊言時，它會損害我們的國家。這正是暴君所尋求的——一個不知道什麽是真什麽是假的選民。
Through lies, half of the electorate was denied a fair run for its preferred candidate. 通過謊言，半數選民無法公平競爭其首選候選人。
I don’t like violence. I do believe our nation’s capitol must be treated as a sacred space. 我不喜歡暴力。我確實相信我們國家的國會大廈必須被視為一個神聖的空間。
I don’t like President Trump (Do I not? Who knows? I have been lied to about him so much for so long, I can‘t tell whether my instinctive aversion is simply the habituated residue of years of being on the receiving end of lies). 我不喜歡特朗普總統（我不喜歡嗎？誰知道呢？我被騙了這麽久，我不知道我本能的厭惡是否隻是多年接受的習慣性殘留謊言）。
But I like the liars who are our current gatekeepers, even less. 但我更不喜歡我們現在守門人的騙子。
The gatekeepers who lie to the public about the most consequential events of our time — and who thus damage our nation, distort our history, and deprive half of our citizenry of their right to speak, champion and choose, without being tarred as would-be violent traitors - deserve our disgust.在我們這個時代最重要的事件上向公眾撒謊的看門人——他們因此損害了我們的國家，歪曲了我們的曆史，並剝奪了我們一半公民的發言權、擁護權和選擇權，而沒有被認為是未來的人暴力叛徒 - 值得我們厭惡。
I am sorry the nation was damaged by so much untruth issued by those with whom I identified at the time.我很抱歉，這個國家被我當時認同的那些人發布的這麽多謊言所破壞。
I am sorry my former “tribe” is angry at a journalist for engaging in —- journalism.對不起，我以前的“部落”對一名從事新聞工作的記者感到憤怒。
I am sorry I believed so much nonsense. 對不起，我相信了這麽多廢話。
Though it is no doubt too little, too late — 雖然這無疑是太少了，也太遲了——
Conservatives, Republicans, MAGA: 保守黨、共和黨、MAGA：
I am so sorry. 我很抱歉。】
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry
