President Donald Trump stated Friday that his son Donald Trump Jr. has paid again a Russian oligarch with shut ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin who the Trumps have confirmed hosted two nights of parties after Trump Jr.’s wedding ceremony.
Trump was requested within the Oval Workplace on Friday whether or not it was applicable for his son to have accepted the present from Umar Kremlev.
“Properly, it’s very, it’s very allowed. And lots of people have events and all, but it surely’s completely allowed,” Trump stated. “However as I perceive it, he paid them again. He did not need to have that, so I hear he paid them again. An individual that he is aware of fairly, I assume a pal of his, gave him a marriage celebration. That is quite common.”
Bettina Anderson Trump and her husband Donald Trump Jr. maintain palms whereas standing collectively in the course of the formal welcoming parade traces inside Aras an Uachtarain on Sept. 12, 2026, in Dublin, Eire.
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ProPublica first reported on Kremlev’s present to Trump Jr.
Lawmakers and critics have expressed concern over the present. A few of them warned that accepting costly presents from overseas adversaries may create doubtlessly extreme conflicts of curiosity and potential leverage over the president’s household.
When pressed about Kremlev’s shut ties to the Kremlin, Trump advised that his son “did not do a background test.”
A reporter commented that it was the primary the general public had heard that Trump Jr. paid Kremlev again.
“No, I heard I heard about that. I truly heard that — once I heard the story, I requested about it. He stated, ‘No, I am paying it again, Dad.’ So, and that was some time in the past,” Trump later added.
ABC Information has requested the White Home and The Trump Group for proof that Trump Jr. paid Kremlev again.
Trump Jr.’s spouse Bettina Anderson stated in an Instagram publish that Kremlev “very generously hosted two unimaginable nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding ceremony. It was a unprecedented present from a pal and one thing for which had been and stay extremely grateful.”
Kremlev’s press workplace advised ProPublica that “Mr. Kremlev and Mr. Trump Jr have a pleasant relationship” and so they first met “a few years in the past.” ABC Information has reached out to Kremlev for remark.
