Umar Kremlev

Here is the problem.

Donald Trump's Jr.'s wedding is paid for by Umar Kremlev, who is a Russian oligarch, and Applebaum actually said that he is more of a Russian gangster than a Russian oligarch, but that is not here nor there.

ProPublica earlier reported that he paid for the wedding.

Bettina Trump, what, took to Instagram to correct the record and say that he did not pay for the wedding, he just paid for all of the parties.

Like, really, it should be a watermarked mark.

Right.

So that means that probably somebody has told Donald Trump it was wrong, and also I wonder if that's why Donald Trump didn't go to the wedding in the first place, because I didn't quite understand why he didn't go, and this of course would make a lot of sense, is if he knew that going to an Umar Kremlev paid sponsored wedding...

Umar is a close personal friend of Vladimir Putin's.

7.20 in the morning and a beautiful shot of the sparkling Capitol there this morning where Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is the latest GOP lawmaker to criticize President Trump's son for allowing an ally of Vladimir Putin to pay for his post-wedding parties.

ProPublica was the first to report that last week that Umar Kremlev paid much of the bill for two nights of parties in the Bahamas back in May with costs reportedly well into the six figures.

In a post acknowledging the report, the couple called Kremlin a dear friend.

Last week, Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah posted a video on social media saying the Russian payment just stinks and referred to the agreement as corruption.

ProPublica reports that a Russian oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin secretly bankrolled much of the event, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses.

The report identifies the oligarch as Umar Kremlev, who attended this intimate wedding in the Bahamas.

ProPublica reports a spokesperson for Trump Jr. did not dispute the wedding payments and characterized Kremlev as a personal friend of Trump Jr. and, quote, not someone he has a business relationship with.

Now, we should specify that Kremlev didn't pay for the wedding ceremony.

The guy is quite something.

His name is Umar Kremlev, which is not his real name.

He changed it.

he was the leader of what was a banker gang a kind of proud boys militia group called the night wolves which were putin's uh you know thugs and uh he got close to putin's presidential security detail and they made him head of the russian boxing federation and uh financed by gasprom the oil company And a lot of corruption allegations.

to his bride, Bettina Anderson.

Kremlyov, in case you haven't come across him, has a criminal record for extortion and assault.

He was involved in a biker gang called the Night Wolves, an ultra-nationalist group whose leaders had close links to the Kremlin.

He became involved with Putin.

Boarding wood, everybody.

So speaking of treason, we mentioned this before, but Russiagate Expanding, the oligarch Umar Kremlev, who is a spy and close Putin associate who was also Trump Jr.'s wife's employer until six months ago.

This is the guy who bankrolled Don Jr.'s wedding.

Beth says, let's see, her father bankrolled Epstein.

She worked for a Russian oligarch who's close to Putin.

Don Jr. has bragged about the Trump businesses having been largely supported by Russia.

Trump is in the Epstein files, is fighting to keep them hidden from us.

Now the oligarch she used to work for pays for the wedding of Don Jr. and Bettina.

This may be the best news I've seen all year.

A Russian businessman close to Putin, Umar Kremlev, which sounds like Kremlin, head of the International Boxing Association, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Don Jr's wedding celebrations in the Bahamas.

private island, fireworks.

And on Friday, President Trump told reporters, quote, as I understand it, he paid him back.

Speaking of playing defense, story number two.

Donald Trump Jr. has gotten absolutely hammered for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russian mogul Umar Kremlin.

This is not just any Russian rich guy.

He's a boxing executive.

I don't like it.

ProPublica reported last week that Umar Kremlev, an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, secretly paid for an after-party in the Bahamas where Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating his May wedding.

Kremlev paid to rent out a private island, paid for fireworks show, helped plan the event, covering hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of wedding expenses, according to the report.

Now here's what else Curtis said.