2026-06-17T18:44:33.468Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
- 特朗普政府司法部援引此前一起挫败的、针对白宫举办的UFC赛事的袭击图谋，作为支持白宫宴会厅项目的理由。
- 官员表示，这座规划中的宴会厅将通过设置在建筑顶部的先进安保设施，为白宫场地抵御无人机和子弹袭击。
- 批评者认为，特朗普正利用近期的暴力事件为该项目辩护，而该项目尚未获得国会批准。
本文由AI生成摘要，并经CNN编辑审核。
联邦法院一直对唐纳德·特朗普总统所称的“无需议员批准即可在白宫修建大型新宴会厅”的说法持怀疑态度，而他越来越多地将所谓的针对他的袭击企图作为该项目应加快推进的理由。
这一论点的最新版本于周二晚间提出，司法部一名高级政治官员称，上周末在白宫举办的UFC户外赛事遭遇的未遂袭击“凸显了修建这座近9万平方英尺活动场地的迫切必要性”。
美国司法部民事 division 负责人布雷特·舒梅特在一封提交给联邦上诉法院的简短信函中写道：“这座宴会厅的规模和高度将保护白宫场地免受袭击，并为特勤局提供识别袭击者所需的视野。”
他还写道：“它将保护总统和大型活动中的宾客，而目前我们使用的‘塑料帐篷既无法保护尊贵宾客免受恶劣天气影响，更无法抵御大口径子弹或自杀式无人机’——这正是上周日本拟实施的袭击者图谋发动的袭击类型。”他所指的是历史上用于白宫南草坪大型活动的临时建筑。
这封信函是司法部最新一次试图以华盛顿特区的暴力事件为支撑，为该项目辩护。今年早些时候，特朗普政府就曾援引白宫记者协会晚宴的一起枪击事件和白宫附近的另一起枪击事件，试图阻止华盛顿特区的法院阻碍宴会厅工程。
华盛顿特区巡回上诉法院的一个三名法官合议庭即将在未来几周内就特朗普是否在非法修建宴会厅作出裁决，正如今年春季华盛顿特区一家下级法院的结论那样。本月早些时候在该合议庭进行口头辩论期间，两名似乎倾向于驳回特朗普诉求的法官并未理会他的国家安全相关论点，而是主要聚焦于法律是否允许总统单方面推进该项目。
批评者指出，这座规划中的宴会厅无法替代近期那些威胁到特朗普及其身边人员生命安全的活动场所。
今年4月底，一名疑似枪手出现在华盛顿特区一家酒店，当时特朗普和其他多名行政部门官员正出席在那里举办的白宫记者协会晚宴。事后，司法部援引这一事件，试图让美国地区法官理查德·里昂撤销其此前暂停宴会厅建设的裁决。
随后在5月，司法部又援引白宫附近的一起事件重申了这一请求。当时特勤局人员开枪击毙了一名男子，该机构称此人靠近白宫建筑群外的安检点并向他们开火。
“项目完工后，这座高度集成、统一的标志性关键国家安全设施，将为人们提供一个免遭袭击的‘安全避难所’，”司法部律师在5月24日的文件中写道。
里昂是前总统乔治·W·布什任命的法官，目前尚未对政府的请求作出回应。
外界观察人士今年早些时候指出，年度媒体晚宴是一场私人活动，从未在白宫举办，而新建宴会厅也不会改变这一现状。民主党众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹当时就表示，特朗普拆除东翼以腾出空间修建宴会厅的决定，早在这起事件发生之前就已经做出。
“他们现在试图 retrospectively 更改项目的理由，这根本说不通，”她在4月接受CNN记者马努·拉朱采访时说道，“事实上，白宫早就有举办活动的设施，其中也包括东翼。”
美国国家历史保护信托基金作为对宴会厅项目提起法律挑战的一方，也强烈驳斥了特朗普的论点。
该团体今年春季指出，他们非常重视总统的安全，他们的诉讼并非针对是否应该在白宫修建新宴会厅，而是围绕特朗普能否在未经国会批准的情况下，对总统官邸进行如此大规模的改造。
“周六的恶劣事件并未改变这一点：宪法和多项联邦法规要求国会授权在白宫场地修建宴会厅，而国会并未批准这一授权，”该信托基金的律师在记者协会晚宴事件发生后告诉司法部。
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针对白宫UFC赛事的袭击图谋内情
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针对白宫UFC赛事的袭击图谋内情
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里昂今年早些时候也并未被“为国家安全需要继续推进整个项目”的说法说服。
他在4月澄清，自己暂停项目的裁决并未包括在宴会厅下方修建的高度精密掩体，驳回了白宫所称的“地下和地上部分作为一个整体推进关键国家安全目标”的主张。
但华盛顿特区巡回上诉法院已暂停该裁决，目前允许工程继续进行。
周日的UFC赛事在白宫场地的一处大型临时活动空间户外举办，其中包含一座高耸的开放式“爪形”结构，赛事就在其中进行。官员表示，预计将有约10万人聚集在白宫附近观看这场赛事，该活动在特朗普80岁生日当天举办，是美国建国250周年纪念活动的一部分。赛事期间还在椭圆广场举办了粉丝节。
官员周二表示，多名被指参与策划袭击该赛事的人员已因涉嫌共谋而被起诉。当局称，袭击计划包括使用无人机和枪手。官员表示，相关计划已于上周被侦破，特朗普仍出席了赛事。
特朗普的律师在周二向上诉法院表示，规划中的宴会厅“将在顶部设置高度精密的无人机停机坪和狙击手巢穴，彻底摧毁未来发动此类袭击的可能”。
CNN的霍姆斯·莱布兰德、汉娜·拉宾诺维茨和卡安妮塔·艾耶对本文亦有贡献。
Thwarted attack on UFC fight is another reason to build White House ballroom, Trump DOJ argues
2026-06-17T18:44:33.468Z / CNN
- Trump’s Justice Department is citing a thwarted attack on a UFC fight at the White House as justification for the White House ballroom project.
- Officials say the planned ballroom would shield the grounds from drones and bullets with sophisticated security features atop the structure.
- Critics argue Trump is using recent violence to justify a project that requires congressional approval he has not obtained.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
As federal courts have looked skeptically at President Donald Trump’s assertion that he can construct a massive new ballroom at the White House without approval from lawmakers, he’s increasingly pointed to alleged attempts to harm him as a reason why the project should continue apace.
The latest iteration of that argument came late Tuesday when a top political appointee at the Justice Department said a thwarted possible attack on the outdoor UFC fight held at the White House last weekend “demonstrates the compelling need” for the nearly 90,000-square foot event space.
The ballroom’s “mass and height will shield the White House grounds from attack, and give the Secret Service the visibility needed to identify attackers,” Brett Shumate, the head of DOJ’s civil division, told a federal appeals court in a brief letter.
“It will protect the president and guests at major events that are currently held in ‘plastic tents that cannot even protect highly esteemed guests from inclement weather, let alone high caliber bullets or kamikaze drones,’ – exactly the attack that this Sunday’s would-be assassins plotted to launch,” he wrote, referring to temporary structures that have historically been used for large events held on the White House’s South Lawn.
The missive represents the department’s latest bid to use violence in Washington, DC, to buttress its arguments in defense of the project. Earlier this year, a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and a separate shooting incident near the White House were invoked by the administration as it sought to keep courts in the nation’s capital from frustrating work on the ballroom.
A three-judge panel at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to decide in coming weeks whether Trump is unlawfully constructing the ballroom, as a lower court in DC concluded this spring. During oral arguments before the panel earlier this month, the two judges who appeared ready to rule against Trump showed no interest in his national security arguments and instead focused largely on whether the law permitted the president to unilaterally carry out the project.
Critics have pointed to the fact that the planned ballroom would not be a substitute for the kinds of recent events where there was a threat to Trump’s life and those of the people around him.
After a suspected gunman showed up to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner – where Trump and a host of other executive branch officials were present – at a hotel in DC in late April, DOJ pointed to the incident in a bid to get US District Judge Richard Leon to undo his ruling that would have halted construction on the ballroom.
They later raised an incident near the White House last month as they reupped that request. In that case, Secret Service officers shot and killed a person who the agency said approached a security checkpoint just outside the White House complex and fired at them.
“When completed, this highly knitted, integrated, and unified project, which is a singular and vital national security facility, will provide a ‘SAFE HAVEN’ from attackers,” Justice Department lawyers wrote on May 24.
Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, has yet to respond to the administration’s ask.
Outside observers pointed out earlier this year that the annual press gala is a private event that’s never held at the White House and that a new ballroom wouldn’t change that reality. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez noted at the time that Trump’s decision to demolish the East Wing to make room for the ballroom happened long before the incident.
“The idea that they are now trying to change the rationale for this in retrospect doesn’t quite add up,” she told CNN’s Manu Raju in April. “And in fact, the White House long had facilities for hosting, which also included the East Wing.”
For its part, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is waging the legal challenge to the ballroom project, has pushed back strongly on Trump’s arguments.
The group noted earlier this spring that it takes the president’s safety seriously and that its case wasn’t focused on whether there should be a new ballroom built at the White House, but rather whether Trump could proceed with such a massive change to the presidential residence without congressional approval.
“What Saturday’s awful event does not change is that the Constitution and multiple federal statutes require Congress to authorize construction of a ballroom on White House grounds, and that Congress has not done so,” attorneys for the trust told the Justice Department following the incident at the Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Inside the alleged plot to attack the White House UFC event
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Inside the alleged plot to attack the White House UFC event
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Leon, too, wasn’t persuaded earlier this year that the entire project needed to continue for national security reasons.
He clarified in April that his ruling halting the project excluded work on a highly sophisticated bunker being built under the ballroom, rejecting the White House’s claim that both the underground and above-ground portion of the structure “advances critical national-security objectives as an integrated whole.”
But the DC Circuit put that decision on hold, permitting work to continue for now.
Sunday’s UFC event took place outdoors at a large, temporary event space built on the White House grounds that included a towering, open-air “claw” structure in which the fights unfolded. Officials have said around 100,000 people were expected to gather near the White House for the event, which was held on Trump’s 80th birthday as part of programming for the United States’ 250th anniversary. The event also featured a festival for fans on the Ellipse.
Officials said on Tuesday that multiple people who they claim discussed plans to attack the event were charged in connection with the alleged plot. Authorities say the planned attack allegedly included the use of drones and a gunman. The plans were detected last week, officials said, and Trump still attended the event.
The planned ballroom, Trump’s attorneys told the appeals court on Tuesday, “will support a highly sophisticated drone port and sniper nests atop the ballroom that would destroy any effort to launch such an attack” in the future.
CNN’s Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Kaanita Iyer contributed to this report.
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