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A Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars in wedding expenses for Donald Trump Jr. … [Trump Jr. says] "Sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift." … Sometimes a wedding gift is a bribe from a foreign autocrat. … What he was really buying was not to have a good time at a wedding, but access to the Trump family.

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Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Trump Family's Shameless Corruption Posing A Threat To Our National Security (Senate Democrats, Sept. 15, 2026)