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Sep 21, 2026

Craig UngerGUEST
18:22
But with the lawyers, you might wonder, why would Bill Barr do that? And if you look at what law firm was he part of, it was called Kirkland & Ellis.
Craig UngerGUEST
18:32
And Kirkland & Ellis and Jones & Day, two of the biggest law firms in the world, And the vast majority of their clients are Russian oligarchs.
Craig UngerGUEST
18:43
So they are effectively, indirectly, working for Vladimir Putin.
Craig UngerGUEST
18:48
They don't want to do anything that hurts their clients' interests.
Ed OppermanHOST
45:25
And who just came out? Michael Wolff just came out this week with a tweet or something like that saying, and here it was.
Ed OppermanHOST
45:31
It was about this real estate deal with this Russian oligarch and money laundering.
Ed OppermanHOST
45:36
All right.
Ed OppermanHOST
45:37
Okay.
Stephanie RuhleHOST
21:06
It's going to be a live one when we come back.
Stephanie RuhleHOST
21:10
Why did a Russian oligarch, you've been hearing this story out there, but you knew I couldn't, I could not leave it out.
Stephanie RuhleHOST
21:16
Why exactly did a Russian oligarch, really a longtime thug, very close to Vladimir Putin, help pay a whole lot of money, I'm talking 180 grand, for Don Jr.'s wedding in the Bahamas, huh? We're gonna dig into that in Money Power Politics next.
Stephanie RuhleHOST
21:44
OK, we are tracking the fallout from ProPublica reporting that a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin bankrolled a huge chunk of Donald Trump Jr.'s private island wedding in May.
Stephanie RuhleHOST
21:57
According to this report, Umar Kremlin.
Stephanie RuhleHOST
21:59
Lev, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent out one of the private islands for the three day extravaganza, paid for fireworks while his team helped plan the whole thing.
Erin RyanHOST
5:51
Well, we're going to take a deeper dive into Ms. Sweeney's ad later in the show.
Erin RyanHOST
5:55
But today we're going to start by breaking down J.D. Vance's sinister plan to fuck over single moms, what the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data says and doesn't say about women in the workforce, the concerning rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths, and what Russian oligarch ended up bidding the bill of Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding.
Erin RyanHOST
6:14
And of course, we wrap up with Sani Petty.
Erin RyanHOST
6:22
You're listening to Hysteria, the podcast for respecters of numbers.

39 MINS LATER

Erin RyanHOST
45:20
Let's talk about Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding.
Erin RyanHOST
45:22
Donald Trump Jr. and his tacky-ass second wife had an over-the-top three-day wedding back in May on two private islands in the Bahamas.
Erin RyanHOST
45:29
But new reporting this week from ProPublica reveals that Russian oligarch and Putin ally 43-year-old Umar Kremlin helped foot the bill.
Erin RyanHOST
45:37
including the fee to rent the islands.
Amy GoodmanHOST
0:02
[upbeat music] From New York, this is Democracy Now!
Joshua KaplanGUEST
0:19
We discovered that Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding was secretly funded by a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.
Joshua KaplanGUEST
0:25
This oligarch rented out a private island in the Bahamas for it for multiple nights.
Joshua KaplanGUEST
0:30
It was really an ultra-luxury affair.
Joshua KaplanGUEST
0:33
We're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses, all in secret.
Amy GoodmanHOST
0:37
A bombshell report by ProPublica about a Russian oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding has sparked calls for federal investigations.
Amy GoodmanHOST
0:48
We'll speak to the reporter, Joshua Kaplan.
Amy GoodmanHOST
0:51
Then, the Elimination Project, the Israeli human rights group at B'Tselem, has accused Israel of dramatically escalating its assault on all aspects of Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank.
GerdesHOST
0:03
Big scandal has just emerged.
GerdesHOST
0:05
Uh, yesterday or the day before, uh, ProPublica has put out a, a story about how Don Trump Jr.'s, uh, wedding party was bankrolled by a Russian oligarch.
GerdesHOST
0:18
This isn't sitting well, uh, and there's a reason why.
GerdesHOST
0:21
Now, what I'm going to do is try to explain the facts of the case.
GerdesHOST
0:36
Okay, so it came out in this ar- uh, this article.
GerdesHOST
0:39
It was a ProPublica article, and it's showing, like, this man that you s- that is circ- being circled here, this man's role has been secret until now.
GerdesHOST
0:48
And the title was Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin.
GerdesHOST
0:55
I'm gonna show you one paragraph in here.
Katie PhangHOST
33:24
I know that not all of you are always big fans of Senator Booker, but I will say this, he is always prepared and delivers the boom on Kash Patel.
Katie PhangHOST
33:33
Now, I did wanna talk though about this because I did spend a lot of time yesterday on this channel talking about a guy, a Russian oligarch, who is besties with Vladimir Putin, who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on, I can't remember if he's Tweedledee or Tweedledum, or Tweedledumber, Tweedledumber of the Trump children, but Don Jr.'s wedding to Bettina Anderson, who's the daughter of H. Loy Anderson Jr., who was the Palm Beach banker who vouched for the credibility, the character, and the integrity of Jeffrey Epstein when he was trying to get into the US Virgin Islands to buy property and to bring his businesses in.
Katie PhangHOST
34:12
Now, that lavish wedding in the Bahamas that was supposed to be for just friends ended up including a Russian oligarch, who I've been calling Umar Kremleen.
Katie PhangHOST
34:20
His technical last name is Kremlev.
Katie PhangHOST
34:23
And a number of Russians who only spoke Russian amongst themselves at supposedly an intimate wedding of Don Jr. to his wife, Bettina.
Katie PhangHOST
34:32
But this is why I wanted to play this sound from Attorney General Todd Blanche today, who did an appearance at the White House, of all places, could biz, of course.
Katie PhangHOST
34:40
We're not gonna have any fucking independence between the DOJ and the White House.
Katie PhangHOST
34:44
And this is what Todd Blanche had to say about investigating the ties and the links between Don Trump Jr. and this Russian oligarch who's besties with Vladimir Putin.
Jack CocchiarellaHOST
0:54
He refuses to be the last one holding the bag.
Jack CocchiarellaHOST
0:57
He will do whatever it takes to make sure he stays clean, including sacrificing his son, which is clearly what Donald Trump is doing amid a huge scandal over Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding, his connection to Russian oligarchs, and all the corruption we have seen with this family throughout this first and second Trump administration.
Jack CocchiarellaHOST
1:18
I want to cover it all, both Trump throwing his son under the bus and the jail time that should be coming for him.
Jack CocchiarellaHOST
1:24
But it begins with the context of this story.
Jack CocchiarellaHOST
1:26
The Russian oligarch money that funded Don Jr.'s wedding won his father didn't attend, the clearest sign he doesn't care about his kid.
Jack CocchiarellaHOST
1:34
But it's where we got to start before we get to how Trump just gave up on his
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:38
own son.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:39
A new investigation is shining a light on some of the money allegedly behind Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding.
Adam MocklerHOST
1:40
Kash Patel is like softly defending bestiality while testifying on Capitol Hill.
Adam MocklerHOST
1:46
And Todd Blanche, our attorney general, is currently running defense for Russian oligarchs who are paying for Don Jr.'s wedding that happened a few months back.
Adam MocklerHOST
1:56
That is the intro that I have to give you all.
Adam MocklerHOST
1:58
I was about to click record on this video, and I was like, how refreshing would it be if I just started recording a video and I actually had some good news for you all? But today, we're going to continue with the same old defense.
Shannon FarrenHOST
20:17
That just happened just, uh, just this morning.
Shannon FarrenHOST
20:21
President, uh, Donald Trump's son Don Jr. got married to Bettina Anderson recently, and a Russian oligarch named Umar Kremlev apparently hosted some of the post-wedding parties on a private island in the Bahamas.
Gary HoffmannHOST
20:41
Yes.
Gary HoffmannHOST
20:42
So of course the headline reads, "Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding Secretly Bankro- Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin." Now, uh, the, the wife, Bettina, says that this guy, this Russian businessman, is our dear friend who hosted two nights of celebrations after their wedding.
Gary HoffmannHOST
21:02
Uh, quid pro quo, Doctor.
Gary HoffmannHOST
21:05
There has to be some quid pro quo going on.

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