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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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[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day 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.

[–] Lor@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

Corruption.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He had surgery to turn his esophagus into a nussy

[–] M137@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day 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.

[–] Nonprophet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

This corruption was PERFECT

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah because demons like that don't get punished, ever.

Our government has known about Zorro Ranch and the island long before the Epstein files were a thing. They all knew about when Trump said he would run and joined the GOP. They all knew about during every debate on tv, every campaign speech, every background check that every agency performed, etc.

They knew before hand that he was a dangerous and treasonous pedophile and THEY LET HIM TAKE EVERYTHING, TWICE.

There will not be any real accountability. The person who committed the largest Medicare fraud in the US (Rick Scott) works for Trump now and has never paid. A person who helped cause the 2008 financial crisis was hired in as the Treasury secretary the first time and helped treasonous pedophiles all the way to the bank.

The only ones that pay are us

[–] Nobody@anarchist.nexus 81 points 2 days ago (3 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.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (1 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.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (2 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

[–] YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well Iran is helping them to scale back.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they're building more bases in Australia because China.. and Australia is placing a giant bullseye on it's back because stupid.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I hadn't heard of that, I was talking about the drawdown of troops in Europe

[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

No doubt about this at all.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Something something Burisma

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The Panama Papers dethroned nobody.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Russian oligarch in bed with American oligarch"

Is anyone surprised

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Actually yes. I thought their preferred bed partners were children.

[–] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Dumb and dumber are probably now getting destroyed by donnie's policies - if they are still around, that is - and whining about how they "didn't vote for THIS!"

[–] Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

They sure do look like two very bright individuals.

[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago
[–] baeb66@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days 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.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days 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.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 28 points 2 days ago

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

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Well they flew Johnson to mar a lago and put the scares into him.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days 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.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 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....

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] devilman60@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago

Cheapskate bellend