トランプ氏、七面鳥「恩赦」行事で弾劾ジョーク

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米首都ワシントンのホワイトハウスで26日、大統領が感謝祭の七面鳥に「恩赦」を与える毎年恒例の式典が行われた。式典では、ドナルド・トランプ大統領が自身に対する弾劾調査に絡め、七面鳥に対して証言を求める召喚状が出されたとのジョークを飛ばす一幕があった。（写真は米首都ワシントンのホワイトハウスで行われた式典で、七面鳥に「恩赦」を与えるドナルド・トランプ大統領）
　トランプ大統領はローズガーデンに集まった招待客らの前で、弾劾調査を率いる下院情報特別委員会のアダム・シフ委員長（民主党）に言及し、「（七面鳥が）木曜日にアダム・シフの地下室への出頭を命ずる召喚状をすでに受け取った」と述べた。
　ある記者はトランプ氏に対し、現政権下で起きた一連のスキャンダルで有罪判決を受けた側近らに恩赦を与える予定があるかとの質問を叫んだものの、トランプ氏はこれを無視した。
　米国では感謝祭の祝日に当たる２８日、４５００万羽以上の七面鳥が消費されると推定されている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/11/27-08:45）

President Donald Trump turned the quirky annual White House ritual of pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys into a riff on his impeachment Tuesday, joking that the two birds had been subpoenaed to testify.
They've already received subpoenas to appear in Adam Schiff's basement on Thursday, Trump told guests in the Rose Garden, referring to the head of the intelligence committee leading the impeachment probe in the House of Representatives.
Trump was presiding over a ceremony where the president symbolically spares a specially chosen turkey from joining the more than 45 million estimated to be consumed nationwide at Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday.
After online polls were open for 24 hours, a large white bird named Butter won a close vote over his competitor, Bread. Both will be sent to a site known as Gobbler's Rest at Virginia Tech university.
Butter, I wish you a lot of luck. I hereby grant you a full and complete pardon, Trump said.
He ignored a shouted question from a journalist about whether he planned to use his constitutional power to pardon any of his associates convicted in a series of scandals during his presidency.
Trump also managed to get in a dig at the media, which he almost daily berates as fake, saying journalists would like Tuesday's story because turkeys are closely related to vultures.