软银公司今年1月向特朗普总统图书馆捐赠了5000万美元[1]。随后数月内，这家日本企业宣布与美国联邦政府达成协议，将在俄亥俄州朴茨茅斯租赁联邦政府土地建设大规模数据中心[1]。
民主党议员对这两笔交易的时间顺序提出了质疑。参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦、理查德·布卢门撒尔以及众议员梅兰妮·斯坦斯伯里在6月致函特朗普政府，表达了对潜在贿赂的担忧[1]。沃伦在声明中指出："我们是否应该相信这只是巧合——在软银向特朗普图书馆捐赠5000万美元两个月后，他的政府就宣布了这项针对软银数据中心的大规模租赁交易？"[1]
SoftBank made a $50 million donation to the Trump Presidential Library in January, followed months later by the Japanese technology conglomerate announcing a major lease agreement with the U.S. federal government to build a data center on government-owned land in Portsmouth, Ohio [1]. The timing of the two transactions raised concerns among Democratic lawmakers, who sent a letter to the Trump administration in June questioning whether the donations and the subsequent federal deal were connected [1].
Senator Elizabeth Warren, along with Senators Richard Blumenthal and Representative Melanie Stansbury, expressed their skepticism about the sequence of events [1]. Warren stated: "Are we expected to believe it's a coincidence that two months after Softbank donated $50 million to the Trump library, his administration announced a massive lease deal for Softbank's data center?" [1]
