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.

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[–] 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • [–] 79 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Scandal that would have destroyed any and every politician prior to 2017 #314,231

    Trump is the Sulla of the American empire. He won’t actually become emperor, but he slayed all the sacred cows and set the stage for someone else.

    Hopefully the next is more Julius Caesar than Kushner or Vance. Or democracy gets saved in the US, but that seems like a long shot at this point long term.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    You're out here hoping for a Caesar, I just hope America somehow gets a soft landing when it stops being an empire, like the UK did.

    It's not gonna, I just think it's a better thing to hope for.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I don't see that happening either. The UK saw the writing on and accepted it mostly gracefully (with some shenanigans here and there ofc). I can't imagine the US deciding, by themselves, to drastically scale back foreign bases or stop doing whatever they're doing in the middle east.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago

    I'll file that right next to his being "totally exonerated" by the EFTA

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    "Russian oligarch in bed with American oligarch"

    Is anyone surprised

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    Just like it's totally allowed for your best friend to have been a prolific child sex enslaver. Technically not illegal to hang out with the guy, and if you're a fucking Nazi, apparently no one gives a shit because the evil you do for them overrides literally anything else.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    Ohhhh, okay. Cuase I was like “what!? Is that allowed” but I guess it is allowed. So it’s fine.

    Problem solved everyone! We can go back home.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    So the SCOTUS that is corrupted by too many conservatives on it said donnie has immunity, but does that extend to his family?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Try as I might, I can't unsee his gender affirming surgeries on that chin.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Those dipshits at CNN, Politico and MSNBC, who just got banned from the press pool, should be hammering this story home the way Fox would do if they found more hog pics of Hunter Biden.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    This corruption was PERFECT

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    So you're telling us donald trump pinky swore that his son paid the Russians back.. after the wedding for some reason? Well then, nothing to see here. Trump wouldnt lie.

    /s

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    But has any mother fucker seen what’s on Hunter’s laptop!?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I don't see how it's not "allowed". I'm in no way knowledge about the legality but my guess is that there's no legal issues.
    Obviously that doesn't matter, it's a political thing which is absolutely crazy.
    Not surprised at all though, this is very tame compared to most things from the circus of the world right now.
    It's fucked up.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    "Checks and balances" didn't survive long into this second term, did it?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I’ll be the broken record, just imagine if Biden let this happen, or Obama, or Hillary.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yep. They are still queening the fuck out over emails and a hard drive (excuse me, "Biden's laptop"), and terrorist fist-jabs, and latte salutes and Dijon mustard and carrying around a hot sauce bottle, and eating ice-cream and feet on the desk and a fucking tan suit, FFS...

    I still, even trying to swap into their low-info mindset, cannot understand just what the fuck was the issue with a tan suit, exactly? I mean, even given their smooth brains.

    But these are the people that pretended to believe that wind-surfing was the very height of elite arrogance and so demonstrative of the effete stylings of the out-of-touch upper class (Kerry), then proceeded to have a 10+ year circle jerk over a billionaire that spent most of his life doing nothing else but being a try-hard Manhattanite socialite....

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I still, even trying to swap into their low-info mindset, cannot understand just what the fuck was the issue with a tan suit, exactly? I mean, even given their smooth brains.

    The guy wearing it was black.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, 100%. The far right dumbasses were freaking out over everything and because they mostly could not yell n-CLANG-er in public (probably had to confine that to yelling that at their TVs), they locked onto stuff like this.

    But IIRC, the Murc's Law Media seemed to act like these unhinged nutjobs had some kind of point on the tan suit, as if some unwritten rule had been violated or something.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Americans are getting what they deserve at this point. Long ago really. But this?

    Apologies to any Americans that run into resistance when you come for Canada.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I didn't vote for any of this shit and so I reject the idea that I or anyone else that didn't vote for donnie "deserve" any of what low-t is doing to this country.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If you voted, that’s great. Anyone who didn’t vote effectively voted for demented Don. Don’t vote and you have just voted for the winner like it or not.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Oh, believe me, I realize.

    We have lots of people in this country that still seem to think the time to send some kind of "message" to Democrats is after the primaries and the way to do it is by furiously crossing their arms, stamping their feet, and sitting out (or voting third party, lol) after Democrats don't pass some litmus test.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    A lot of people do crimes and all, and I heard he took the bullet back out and scooped some of the brains back in after shooting that guy in the head.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    The American electorate does not care that they are hypocrites and they have figured out that it doesn't matter.

    They just give Fox their sound bite and continue on doing what they were doing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Corruption.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Corruption is a staple of USA politics for centuries. Even moreso the last few decades. Trump is completely right.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I thought it wasn't a wedding party? Changing your tune so quickly?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Cheapskate bellend

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    I'm surprised he's not just calling it fake news. That's where we're at now. He doesn't even care anymore. He's not even denying it anymore. He's basically just saying "who cares, you can't do anything about it".

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