By Daniel Dale，2小时前发布于2026年2月6日，美国东部时间下午3:55
（图片说明）2026年2月5日，美国华盛顿特区华盛顿希尔顿酒店举行的国家祈祷早餐会上，美国总统特朗普发表讲话。
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在周四的国家祈祷早餐会上，唐纳德·特朗普总统根据预先准备的讲稿发表讲话，谈到了对马里亚姆·易卜拉欣（Mariam Ibrahim）的迫害。2014年，易卜拉欣因基督教信仰问题在苏丹被不公正地监禁并判处死刑，直到同年全球抗议声中她才获释。
特朗普正确地表示：“全球的信徒们都为易卜拉欣的案子奔走，为她祈祷，成功施压促使她获释。”
但随后，总统似乎即兴发挥——声称是他让易卜拉欣获释的。
“是我做的。是我做的。实际上，我打了一个电话就搞定了，”他说，“而且她得到了如此多的支持，这很容易。当我向那些掌权者解释时：‘是的，先生，我们会立即照办。’我只是希望我早点知道这件事。但世界很大，人很多。”
多年来，特朗普一直讲述虚构的故事，其中有匿名人士称他为“先生”。这又是一个类似的例子。
易卜拉欣于2014年获释，当时正值奥巴马政府时期。特朗普直到2017年1月才就任总统，他甚至直到2015年6月才成为总统候选人。没有任何迹象表明，当时身为美国私人公民、商人兼名人的特朗普，是促使苏丹当局释放她的人。
一位2014年在国家安全委员会任职的前奥巴马政府官员周五告诉CNN：“我当时和现在都不知道特朗普参与了此事。如果他参与了，我会感到非常惊讶。”
《宗教新闻服务》记者杰克·詹金斯（Jack Jenkins）周四首先对特朗普的说法提出了质疑。
普林斯顿大学教授、著名保守派法律学者罗伯特·P·乔治（Robert P. George）周五在电子邮件中表示：“2014年，作为美国国际宗教自由委员会主席，我曾为马里亚姆·易卜拉欣辩护。我不记得唐纳德·特朗普参与了此案或协助了我们委员会的努力。当然，他当时还不是总统。至于他是否在我们看不到的情况下私下参与，我无法确定。这当然是有可能的。”
理论上这有可能。但即使特朗普确实以某种方式为推动国际压力运动促成易卜拉欣获释（尽管周五CNN邀请白宫团队和国会盟友说明情况时，他们未能指出任何具体方式），这也不能证明他是通过一个电话个人促成其获释的。
特朗普并未在2019年的活动中讲述这个故事。白宫周五未置评
白宫未回应CNN周五就特朗普是否参与易卜拉欣获释事件的询问。周五对LexisNexis新闻文章数据库的搜索显示，数百篇关于此案的文章中，没有一篇提到特朗普的参与。
2019年，当易卜拉欣在白宫与其他宗教迫害幸存者参加活动时，特朗普并未公开表现出对这个案件的熟悉，也没有讲述自己如何“单枪匹马”确保她获释的故事。他的一名政府成员简要向他总结了易卜拉欣的经历，然后特朗普对她说：“我们把你救出来了，这很好，太棒了。”
2020年的一次公开对话中，特朗普当时的白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯（Mark Meadows），一位前国会议员，与一位保守派活动人士谈到他们如何自豪地回顾为释放易卜拉欣所做的工作——但两人都没有提到特朗普参与其中。
当CNN周五联系2014年为易卜拉欣发声的新泽西州共和党众议员克里斯·史密斯（Chris Smith），询问特朗普的说法是否有任何事实依据时，他仅通过助手发送了两条关于自己2014年对此事评论的网页链接。在这两个链接中，他都没有提到特朗普。
试图联系易卜拉欣征求意见未获成功。
‘I did that’: Trump takes credit for a prisoner release that happened before he even ran for president
By Daniel Dale, 2 hr ago, PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2026, 3:55 PM ET
US President Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on February 5, 2026.
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At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke from prepared remarks as he discussed the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim. Ibrahim was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death in Sudan in 2014, in a case centered on her Christian faith, until she was released that same year following a global outcry.
Trump correctly said: “Believers all over the planet rallied to Mariam’s cause, prayed for her protection, and successfully pressured for her release.”
But then the president appeared to ad-lib – and claimed that he was the one who got Ibrahim freed.
“I did that. I did that. I did that with one phone call, actually,” he said. “And she had such support, it was so easy. And when I explained it to the powers that be: ‘Yes, sir, we will do it right away.’ I just wish I knew earlier. But it’s a big world with a lot of people.”
For years, Trump has told fictional stories that feature unnamed people referring to him as “sir.” This was another one.
Ibrahim was released in 2014, during the Obama administration. Trump did not become president until January 2017. He was not even a presidential candidate until June 2015. There has never been the slightest indication that a private citizen in the US, a businessman and celebrity at the time, was the person who convinced Sudanese authorities to let her out of prison.
A former Obama administration official who served on the National Security Council in 2014 told CNN on Friday: “I neither had at the time nor have now any knowledge of Trump’s involvement whatsoever. It’d be very surprising if he were.”
Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, first raised skepticism about Trump’s story on Thursday.
Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor who is a prominent conservative legal scholar, said in a Friday email: “As Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2014, I advocated for Mariam Ibrahim. I do not recall Donald Trump being involved in the case or assisting our Commission’s efforts. Of course, he was not President at the time. Whether he was working privately outside our view, I cannot say. It is certainly possible.”
It is possible in theory. But even if Trump did contribute in some way to the international pressure campaign to achieve Ibrahim’s release – some way Trump’s White House team and congressional allies could not identify when invited to do so by CNN on Friday – that wouldn’t make it true that he personally got Ibrahim released with a phone call.
Trump didn’t tell this story at a 2019 event. The White House wouldn’t comment Friday
The White House did not respond to CNN’s Friday request to describe any Trump involvement in Ibrahim’s release. A Friday search of the LexisNexis database of news articles brought up hundreds of articles about the case but none that mentioned any Trump involvement.
When Ibrahim met Trump at the White House in 2019, at an event with fellow survivors of religious persecution, he did not publicly display familiarity with the case or tell the story about how he had supposedly singlehandedly secured her release. A member of his administration briefly summarized Ibrahim’s story for him, and Trump then told her, “We got you out, that’s good, that’s great.”
During a public conversation in 2020, Trump’s then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a former congressman, spoke with a conservative activist about how they both look back proudly on their work to free Ibrahim – but neither of them said Trump had been involved too.
And when CNN reached out Friday to Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who was a vocal advocate for Ibrahim in 2014, to ask whether there was any truth to Trump’s story, he responded only by having an aide send along two web links to his own 2014 comments on the matter. He did not mention Trump in either link.
Attempts to contact Ibrahim for comment were unsuccessful.
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