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 paid back.
“It’s totally allowed. And a lot of people have parties and all,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, before adding, “But, as I understand it, he paid them back.” He also said, “I hear he paid them back” without elaborating.
ProPublica first reported this week that Umar Kremlev, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, helped pay to rent a private island and for a fireworks show when Donald Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson were married in the Bahamas in May.


They are scaling back, just in a disorderly, disruptive, and callous way that will create disasters for capitalists to profit from. You probably know that though
Well Iran is helping them to scale back.
they’re building more bases in Australia because China… and Australia is placing a giant bullseye on it’s back because stupid.
I hadn’t heard of that, I was talking about the drawdown of troops in Europe