2026-06-11T16:18:50.830Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/fact-check-trump-california-conspiracy-steve-hilton
- 唐纳德·特朗普总统声称，是他的公开施压迫使加州官员批准共和党州长候选人史蒂夫·希尔顿获得11月决选资格，而非按原计划操纵初选结果。
- 加州各郡只是照常计票，希尔顿因获得足够票数而晋级。
- 希尔顿并未认可特朗普关于加州初选存在舞弊的说法。
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如果你坚信上周加州初选结果遭到操纵，试图阻止像州长候选人史蒂夫·希尔顿这样的共和党人胜出，那么希尔顿成功获得11月决选资格的事实，显然会让你的说法陷入极为尴尬的境地。
但如果你是像唐纳德·特朗普总统这样经验老道的阴谋论者，你不会在新事实与你的荒诞说法相悖时就停止传播。相反，你只会调整这套阴谋论，让新事实也能被纳入其中。
特朗普在这类不诚实的叙事变通方面已有多年经验。比如2011年前总统巴拉克·奥巴马公布其夏威夷出生证明长版文件，彻底推翻了特朗普所谓“奥巴马并非在美国出生”的阴谋论后，特朗普并未立刻放弃这套荒谬言论，而是很快改口称那份出生证明是伪造的。
这一次，特朗普并未承认显然该放弃他关于加州选举被操纵的说法，反而开始宣称他已经迫使操纵选举者屈服——但这只适用于希尔顿的情况，不适用于共和党洛杉矶市长候选人落选的斯宾塞·普拉特。
请试着跟上他的逻辑。
希尔顿并未认可特朗普的舞弊说法，他曾表示自己“未看到任何理由”需要采取法律行动。但特朗普周三在白宫对记者称，包括CNN在内的多家媒体预测希尔顿将获得决选资格，这是因为特朗普曾公开警告称民主党正打算操纵结果，阻止希尔顿晋级。特朗普称，正是因为他施加的“压力”，不知名的民主党人才被迫放弃了他们计划用来操纵希尔顿的手段，就像特朗普所说的那样，他们曾用同样手段操纵了普拉特的选举结果。
特朗普的说法是：“然后我在那件事（普拉特的败选）上对他们施压很重，但我开始谈论史蒂夫·希尔顿，他是个很棒的人。我看到他们说要等两周才能出结果，于是我开始施压。‘这也会发生在史蒂夫·希尔顿身上。’就是——‘听着，你们得留意’——然后他们很快就批准了史蒂夫·希尔顿。他们不想，当时舆论压力太大了。他能获得批准的唯一原因——他本来就拿到了足够的票数，甚至可能是第一名——但他们批准史蒂夫·希尔顿的唯一原因是，他们原本说要等两周，结果当天晚上就批准了他。因为当时舆论压力拉满了，他们就是些骗子。”
周四上午，他在福克斯新闻频道再次重复了这套说法，称原本“注定会发生在史蒂夫·希尔顿身上的”操纵式败选，最终“因为我持续施压，他们立刻就批准了；他们批准了史蒂夫。这就是一场彻头彻尾的操纵，太离谱了。他们这么快就批准他，就是因为所有人都在盯着这件事”。
当然，这完全是一派胡言。
就目前所有可获取的证据而言，加州发生的一切都只是各郡照常计票——和往常一样进度缓慢，但流程合法。在洛杉矶市长初选中，计票结果显示普拉特无法进入晋级决选所需的前两名。在州长职位的州初选中，计票结果则显示希尔顿将进入前两名。
没有任何加州官员“批准”了希尔顿的资格，无论是因为特朗普还是其他任何人；不存在幕后决策来满足希尔顿的诉求。真实情况平淡无奇：加州选民参与了投票；各郡进行了计票；媒体最终非官方预测，希尔顿将获得足够票数晋级——该州登记选民中约45%为民主党人，约25%为共和党人；与此同时，媒体非官方预测普拉特无法获得足够票数晋级——在洛杉矶市，民主党选民占比远高于共和党，约为55%比15%。
事情本该就此结束。但和往常一样，在特朗普这里，事情永远不会结束。
五年多来，大量证据都未能让特朗普放弃关于他输掉的2020年总统大选的阴谋论谎言。如今一份强有力的矛盾证据，自然也不足以让他放弃这套新的荒唐言论。
The facts didn’t fit Trump’s California conspiracy theory. So he adjusted the conspiracy theory
2026-06-11T16:18:50.830Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/fact-check-trump-california-conspiracy-steve-hilton
- President Donald Trump claimed his public pressure forced California officials to approve Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton’s qualification for the November runoffs rather than proceed with a plan to rig the results of the primary.
- California counties were simply counting votes as usual, and Hilton advanced because he earned enough votes.
- Hilton hasn’t endorsed Trump’s claims about fraud in the California primaries.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
If you’re pushing the baseless conspiracy theory that the results of last week’s California primary elections were rigged against Republicans like gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, it would seem highly inconvenient that Hilton has succeeded in qualifying for the November runoffs.
But if you’re a seasoned conspiracy theorist, as President Donald Trump is, you don’t just stop telling a fantastical tale when it is contradicted by new facts. Rather, you simply adjust the conspiracy theory so that the new facts now fit within it.
Trump has years of experience with this kind of dishonest narrative flexibility. It’s what he employed, for example, after former President Barack Obama released his long-form Hawaii birth certificate in 2011, conclusively disproving Trump’s conspiracy theory that Obama wasn’t actually born in the US. Rather than immediately abandon his nonsense, Trump soon began suggesting the birth certificate was a phony.
This time, rather than conceding that it’s obviously time to abandon his “rigged election” declarations about California, Trump has begun claiming that he had jawboned the riggers into submission … but only in Hilton’s case, not the case of unsuccessful Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt.
Try to follow along here.
Hilton hasn’t endorsed Trump’s fraud claims; he has said he has “seen nothing” to justify any legal intervention. But Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that Hilton’s qualification for the runoff, as projected by CNN and others, happened because Trump had publicly warned that Democrats were about to rig the results to prevent Hilton from qualifying for the runoff. It was because of this Trump “heat,” Trump said, that unnamed Democrats felt compelled to surrender their plan to cheat Hilton like they, according to Trump, cheated Pratt.
Trump’s story: “And then I hit them hard on that (Pratt’s defeat), but I started talking about Steve Hilton, who’s a fantastic guy. And I saw them say it was going to be two weeks before they knew, and I started hitting them. ‘It’s going to happen to Steve Hilton, too.’ It’s – ‘Watch, you gotta watch’ – and they approved Steve Hilton very quickly. They didn’t want, there was too much heat on them. The only reason he got approved – he had all the votes he needed, probably to be first place – but the only reason they approved Steve Hilton, it was going to be two weeks, they said, and then they approved him that night. Because the heat was on them, because they’re cheatin’ dogs.”
He repeated the story Thursday morning on Fox News, saying that a rigged defeat “was happening to Steve Hilton” but then “I went on such a tear that they approved it immediately; they approved Steve. It’s such a rigged deal, it’s so crazy. They were, they approved him so fast because everybody was watching.”
This is, of course, complete hogwash.
All that has happened in California, as far as all available evidence shows, is that counties are counting votes – slowly, as usual, but legitimately. In the case of the Los Angeles mayoral primary, counting votes has meant that it has become clear that Pratt will not achieve the top-two finish needed to qualify for the runoff. In the case of the state primary for governor, counting votes has meant that it has become clear that Hilton will achieve a top-two finish.
No California authority “approved him,” whether because of Trump or because of anybody else; there was no behind-the-scenes decision to grant Hilton his wish. The reality is boring: California voters voted; counties counted; media outlets eventually projected, unofficially, that Hilton would earn enough votes to advance in a state in which about 45% of registered voters were Democratic and about 25% were Republican; separately, media outlets unofficially projected that Pratt wouldn’t earn enough votes to advance in a city in which Democrats outnumbered Republicans much more significantly, about 55% to 15%.
The end. Except, as usual with Trump, not the end.
A mountainous supply of evidence, over the course of more than five years, has never been sufficient to get Trump to drop his conspiratorial lying about the 2020 presidential election he lost. It’s no surprise that one very strong piece of contradicting evidence hasn’t been sufficient to get him to dump this new round of foolishness.
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