As one long familiar with the folkways of Trump, I was not a bit surprised to read that, in May, his son Donald Trump Jr. married Bettina Anderson in a pricey destination wedding somewhere in the Bahamas. It’s a Trump family member, after all — of course it wasn’t going to be a quickie wedding in Vegas.
It was a little surprising, however, to find out why Don Jr. was unconcerned with saving money: His multiday wedding shindig was secretly bought and paid for by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch (and head of the notoriously corrupt International Boxing Association) who is close friends with Vladimir Putin. Suffice it to say, the howlingly obvious conflict of interest — the president’s son is getting an all-expenses-paid luxury wedding courtesy of a man directly connected to the adversary sitting across the table from our ally Ukraine, even as we are trying to negotiate an end to a war — did not escape notice, even in times as jaded as ours.
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