Trump Says Son Paid Back Russian Oligarch For Wedding Parties
US President Donald Trump said Friday that his eldest son had reimbursed a Kremlin-linked Russian businessman who paid for two days of wedding celebrations in the Bahamas.
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Headlines either highlight a GOP senator calling the funding "corruption" or focus on Trump's statements that his son repaid or that it was "totally allowed".
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Different Spin. The left frames it as "Trump Says Son Paid Back Russian Oligarch For Wedding Parties". The right frames it as "Trump says his son reimbursed Russian oligarch who paid for wedding festivities".
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US President Donald Trump said Friday that his eldest son had reimbursed a Kremlin-linked Russian businessman who paid for two days of wedding celebrations in the Bahamas.
Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) on Friday ripped President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. for letting a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance his...
President Donald Trump said his son, Donald Trump Jr., told him he was repaying a Russian oligarch for a wedding party, seeking to tamp down on an incident that has spurred fresh ethical qu...
President Donald Trump is defending his son's wedding party being partially funded by a Russian oligarch.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday defended his son's recent wedding party being partially bankrolled by a Russian oligarch, but also said he'd been told the money would be...
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his son Donald Trump Jnr has told him he would pay back a Russian oligarch who bankrolled wedding celebrations for him in the Bahamas in May....
Donald Trump Jr. defended the gift earlier this week and made no mention he paid back Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch linked to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Umar Kremlev reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Donald Trump Jr’s wedding after-party in the Bahamas
President Donald Trump said Friday that his son Donald Trump Jr. had reimbursed the Russian oligarch who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund his wedding celebration. An inves...
"When I heard the story, I asked him, and he said, 'I'm paying him back, Dad,'" Trump told reporters on Sept. 18.
The president claims his eldest son reimbursed Umar Kremlev, who spent hundreds of thousands on the nuptials.