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Sep 21, 2026
SPECIAL GUEST CRAIG UNGER: Offshore Cash, Russian Oligarchs, and Trump Jr.’s Subsidized Wedding
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18:22Craig UngerGUEST
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.
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18:32Craig UngerGUEST
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.
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18:43Craig UngerGUEST
So they are effectively, indirectly, working for Vladimir Putin.
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18:48Craig UngerGUEST
They don't want to do anything that hurts their clients' interests.
Unbreaking News But New BS
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45:25Ed OppermanHOST
And who just came out? Michael Wolff just came out this week with a tweet or something like that saying, and here it was.
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45:31Ed OppermanHOST
It was about this real estate deal with this Russian oligarch and money laundering.
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45:36Ed OppermanHOST
All right.
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45:37Ed OppermanHOST
Okay.
Mark Zuckerberg weighs in on the A.I. slowdown debate
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21:06Stephanie RuhleHOST
It's going to be a live one when we come back.
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21:10Stephanie RuhleHOST
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.
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21:16Stephanie RuhleHOST
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.
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21:44Stephanie RuhleHOST
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.
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21:57Stephanie RuhleHOST
According to this report, Umar Kremlin.
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21:59Stephanie RuhleHOST
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.
Calling Balls and Strikes w. Clare Malone & Alexis Nikole Nelson
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5:51Erin RyanHOST
Well, we're going to take a deeper dive into Ms. Sweeney's ad later in the show.
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5:55Erin RyanHOST
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.
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6:14Erin RyanHOST
And of course, we wrap up with Sani Petty.
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6:22Erin RyanHOST
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39 MINS LATER
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45:20Erin RyanHOST
Let's talk about Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding.
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45:22Erin RyanHOST
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.
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45:29Erin RyanHOST
But new reporting this week from ProPublica reveals that Russian oligarch and Putin ally 43-year-old Umar Kremlin helped foot the bill.
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45:37Erin RyanHOST
including the fee to rent the islands.
Democracy Now! 2026-09-16 Wednesday
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0:02Amy GoodmanHOST
[upbeat music] From New York, this is Democracy Now!
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0:19Joshua KaplanGUEST
We discovered that Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding was secretly funded by a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.
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0:25Joshua KaplanGUEST
This oligarch rented out a private island in the Bahamas for it for multiple nights.
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0:30Joshua KaplanGUEST
It was really an ultra-luxury affair.
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0:33Joshua KaplanGUEST
We're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses, all in secret.
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0:37Amy GoodmanHOST
A bombshell report by ProPublica about a Russian oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding has sparked calls for federal investigations.
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0:48Amy GoodmanHOST
We'll speak to the reporter, Joshua Kaplan.
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0:51Amy GoodmanHOST
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.
A Putin Insider Paid for Don Jr.’s Wedding—What Did He Want?
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0:03GerdesHOST
Big scandal has just emerged.
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0:05GerdesHOST
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.
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0:18GerdesHOST
This isn't sitting well, uh, and there's a reason why.
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0:21GerdesHOST
Now, what I'm going to do is try to explain the facts of the case.
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0:36GerdesHOST
Okay, so it came out in this ar- uh, this article.
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0:39GerdesHOST
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.
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0:48GerdesHOST
And the title was Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin.
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0:55GerdesHOST
I'm gonna show you one paragraph in here.
Sidebar With Katie Phang - 9/16/2026
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33:24Katie PhangHOST
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.
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33:33Katie PhangHOST
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.
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34:12Katie PhangHOST
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.
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34:20Katie PhangHOST
His technical last name is Kremlev.
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34:23Katie PhangHOST
And a number of Russians who only spoke Russian amongst themselves at supposedly an intimate wedding of Don Jr. to his wife, Bettina.
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34:32Katie PhangHOST
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.
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34:40Katie PhangHOST
We're not gonna have any fucking independence between the DOJ and the White House.
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34:44Katie PhangHOST
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.
Trump is Sending his son to Jail
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0:54Jack CocchiarellaHOST
He refuses to be the last one holding the bag.
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0:57Jack CocchiarellaHOST
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.
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1:18Jack CocchiarellaHOST
I want to cover it all, both Trump throwing his son under the bus and the jail time that should be coming for him.
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1:24Jack CocchiarellaHOST
But it begins with the context of this story.
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1:26Jack CocchiarellaHOST
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.
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1:34Jack CocchiarellaHOST
But it's where we got to start before we get to how Trump just gave up on his
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own son.
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A new investigation is shining a light on some of the money allegedly behind Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding.
This is f*cking CHAOTIC...
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1:40Adam MocklerHOST
Kash Patel is like softly defending bestiality while testifying on Capitol Hill.
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1:46Adam MocklerHOST
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.
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1:56Adam MocklerHOST
That is the intro that I have to give you all.
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1:58Adam MocklerHOST
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.
PARDON ME… FOR $300,000?
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20:17Shannon FarrenHOST
That just happened just, uh, just this morning.
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20:21Shannon FarrenHOST
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.
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20:41Gary HoffmannHOST
Yes.
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20:42Gary HoffmannHOST
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.
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21:02Gary HoffmannHOST
Uh, quid pro quo, Doctor.
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21:05Gary HoffmannHOST
There has to be some quid pro quo going on.
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