Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) pressed for proof on Sunday that Donald Trump Jr. paid back a Russian oligarch who funded his wedding festivities.
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Senator from Trump's own party asks him to prove the wedding repayment he claims already happened.the receipts: 4 stories
I need somebody who does this for a living to explain a word to me, because I don't do wire transfers and I figured a bank would be the outfit that knows the answer, not me. So I asked the woman at the counter at my branch — Tuesday, not busy — what it means when somebody says a debt got "reimbursed." She said it means money moved, on a date, in an amount, and the bank has a record of both, because that's the job. That's their whole business, keeping track of when money that went one way came back the other. I believe her. I just don't have the two things she said I should have.
I wrote some of this down. Not all of it — I lost the thread once and had to start the notebook over on the same page — but here's what I've got. In May, Donald Trump Jr. got married in the Bahamas. A Russian named Umar Kremlev, who runs the International Boxing Association and who Vladimir Putin had handed the Order of Friendship to a few weeks before the wedding, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward it — the rental of a private island was part of that. Trump Jr. and his wife confirmed it themselves, on social media, once ProPublica had already reported it.
I don't want to be a bother, but I have to go back to the word for a second. …
President Donald Trump said Friday that his son Donald Trump Jr. had reimbursed the Russian oligarch who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund his wedding celebration. An investigation published this week by ProPublica reported that Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association and a close ally of Russian…
Congressional Democrats have opened an investigation after ProPublica revealed on Monday that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin bankrolled part of Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding in May. ProPublica reports that Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars on wedding expenses, including the rental of a private island.…
Arch With No Legal Basis to Break Ground Gets Promoted to 'Military Complex' With Snipers, Dronesthe receipts: 13 stories
On September 3rd, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the government was preparing "over the next two-week period" to start excavation on what he called the "Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck." All together now — those are his own two names for the same structure, filed one sentence apart, and neither one is "monument."
By September 4th, the people reading the same paperwork found a problem Burgum hadn't mentioned. Attorney Nicolas Sansone told Common Dreams the administration "has no legal authority to begin work" on the arch at all. The two-week excavation window had, on paper, no floor under it.
On September 5th, three Vietnam veterans and an architectural historian went to federal court anyway, filing an emergency motion to block the groundbreaking before it could happen. …
Trump said the update was being made at the request of the U.S. military.
The president’s post about the 250-foot arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project.
President Trump has claimed that military operations are needed at his proposed triumphal arch in Washington D.C., in order to protect national security. A federal court is weighing the arch's legality.
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
Trump says his 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington Memorial Bridge will house drones, snipers and large quantities of ammunition storage.
President Trump posted on social media early Sunday that his proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery will be used as a military complex, saying there will "large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage."
President Trump said that he has agreed to convert plans for a massive triumphal arch into a "top grade Military Complex," equipped with snipers and drone storage.
The Pentagon has failed its audit eight years running - the only major federal agency never to pass one Military Times, 19 December 2025
Trump says his proposed arch will include a military complex housing drones and snipersPresident Donald Trump said in a Sunday Truth Social post that he would convert plans for the D.C.-area “Triumphal Arch” to “a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch” which could be used for snipers and drone storage.