Trump Wedding Funding and National Security
Just learned about this Donald Trump wedding extravaganza, which
took, of course, place this last May in the Bahamas,
heavily funded by a
Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars on the wedding of the
son of the president,
and of course, none of this was disclosed.
This money is directly tied to Russian state-controlled
companies. Mr. Greatrex, does the son of the president
accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a close
ally of Putin, does that pose any national security threat?
Thank you for the question. I, I think it not only poses a
national security threat, I think it forces the American people to
again
wonder in whose interest these officials are
working for. Are they working on behalf of keeping the
American people safe,
or are they working in order to advance their own private indust-
industry interests and, you know, the companies that they lead in
these sorts of settings? And again, the American people should not have to
ask that question.
And, uh, you can just imagine, had another president had one of their
children and their wedding paid for
by an oligarch or corrupt figures in, from another nation.
I mean, it is, it is astounding the amount of corruption
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