商人杨安泽抨击唐纳德·特朗普总统是美国几十年来饱受煎熬的“疾病症状”。
作为2020年美国总统大选的民主党候选人，杨上周五在新罕布什尔州的一场辩论中发表了讲话，参加辩论的有前副总统乔·拜登、参议员、前印第安纳州市长皮特·巴蒂吉、参议员、参议员艾米·克洛布查尔和汤姆·施泰尔。
在辩论中，Buttigieg说，如果民主党想要在2020年获胜，他们必须“准备好从我们过去依赖的剧本中前进”
这位前南本德市长在提到特朗普最近的弹劾投票无罪时补充道:“如果参议院以前是陪审团，你现在就是陪审团。美国人民是陪审团，将对这位总统和保护他的共和党参议员做出最终裁决。”
杨——辩论中发言时间最少的人据美国有线电视新闻网报道——我不同意这份声明，并回击说特朗普的胜利被误解了。
“特朗普不是我们所有问题的根源，当我们表现得像他一样时，我们就犯了一个错误，”杨说。“他是一种疾病的症状，这种疾病在我们的社区已经积累了数年甚至数十年。我们的工作是开始真正治愈疾病的艰苦工作。
“大多数美国人觉得政党多年来一直在玩你输我输的游戏，你知道谁一直在输吗？我们有。
“我们的社区有。我们的社区已经在我们脚下瓦解。这就是为什么爱荷华州，一个传统的摇摆州，以将近10个百分点的优势输给了特朗普。这就是为什么俄亥俄州，一个传统的摇摆州，现在变得如此红，以至于我被告知我们甚至不打算在那里竞选，”他继续说道。“这些社区正在目睹他们的生活方式被毁灭。
“我们已经自动削减了400万个制造业岗位，我们正在关闭新罕布什尔州30%的商店和购物中心，而亚马逊，这背后的力量，实际上是零税收。这些是美国人每天在我们周围看到和感受到的变化。”
他补充道:“如果我们开始努力解决这些问题，我们不仅能在秋季击败唐纳德·特朗普，还能推动我们的社区向前发展。”
这已经不是杨第一次犯类似的案子了。去年12月，他在接受美国广播公司新闻采访时发表了类似声明，同时也提到了亚马逊的税收记录。“民主党...表现得好像唐纳德·特朗普是我们所有问题的根源。他是一种症状，我们需要治愈潜在的疾病，”他当时说，RealClearPolitics报道。
杨提出了一种被称为“自由红利”的普遍基本收入(UBI)形式，作为应对自动化带来的失业问题的一种方式，并表示像谷歌、脸书和亚马逊这样的大型科技巨头应该为美国公民使用个人数据支付费用。
本周早些时候，特朗普在参议院面临的两项弹劾条款中被判无罪。爱荷华州的核心会议以大规模混乱告终，因为软件被设计用来计算选票发生故障。但是吉吉和桑德斯被留下了在结果的顶端紧密匹配。
2020年2月7日，新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特圣安瑟姆学院，民主党总统候选人杨安泽在民主党总统初选辩论结束后，在旋转室向记者发表讲话。
ANDREW YANG SAYS TRUMP IS 'SYMPTOM OF A DISEASE' THE COUNTRY MUST WORK TO CURE
Businessman Andrew Yang blasted President Donald Trump as a "symptom of a disease" that has been broiling in America for decades.
Yang, who is campaigning as a Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election, was speaking at a debate in New Hampshire on Friday that included former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer.
During the debate, Buttigieg said if Democrats wanted to win in 2020 they would have to "be ready to move on from the playbook that we have relied on in the past."
And referencing Trump's recent impeachment vote acquittal, the former South Bend Mayor added: "If the Senate was the jury before, you are the jury now. The American people are the jury that will have the final verdict on this president and on the senators in the GOP who protected him."
Yang—who ultimately had the least speaking time during the debate according to CNN—took issue with the statement and fired back to say Trump's victory was misunderstood.
"Trump is not the cause of all of our problems and we are making a mistake when we act like he is," Yang said. "He is a symptom of a disease that has been building up in our communities for years and decades. It's our job to get to the harder work of actually curing the disease.
"Most Americans feel like the political parties have been playing you-lose-I-lose for years and you know who has been losing the entire time? We have.
"Our communities have. Our communities have been disintegrating beneath our feet. That's why Iowa, a traditional swing state, went to Trump by almost 10 points. That's why Ohio, a traditional swing state, is now so red that I am told we are not even going to campaign there," he continued. "These communities are seeing their way of life get blasted into smithereens.
"We have automated away four million manufacturing jobs and counting, we are closing 30 percent of New Hampshire stores and malls and Amazon, the force behind that, is literally paying zero taxes. These are the changes that Americans are seeing and feeling around us every day."
He added: "If we get to the hard work of curing those problems we will not just defeat Donald Trump in the fall but we will actually be able to move our communities forward."
It's not the first time Yang made similar cases. He made similar statements last December, also noting Amazon's tax record, in an interview with ABC News. "The Democratic Party ... is acting like Donald Trump is the cause of all of our problems. He's a symptom and we need to cure the underlying disease," he said at the time, RealClearPolitics reported.
Yang has proposed a form of universal basic income (UBI) dubbed the Freedom Dividend as a way to combat job losses from automation, and has said huge tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon should have to pay U.S. citizens for use of their personal data.
Earlier this week, Trump was acquitted on both articles of impeachment that he was facing in the Senate. The Iowa caucuses ended with mass confusion as software designed to count votes malfunctioned. Buttigieg and Sanders were left closely matched at the top of the results.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks to reporters in the spin room after the Democratic presidential primary debate at St. Anselm College on February 07, 2020 in Manchester, New Hampshire.
