{"id":44,"date":"2026-09-14T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbc.online\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:49:08","slug":"donald-trump-jr-s-wedding-funded-in-part-by-russian-oligarch-couple-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsbc.online\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s wedding funded in part by Russian oligarch, couple says"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"l-article__text js-story-text\" aria-label=\"Article text\">\n<p>Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s new wife, Bettina, is confirming that her May wedding weekend celebration was partially funded by a man with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on her Instagram page Monday morning signed by the couple, Bettina Trump wrote that the man, Umar Kremlev, was a \u201cdear friend,\u201d who \u201cvery generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend, and something for which we were and remain incredibly grateful,\u201d it went on.<\/p>\n<p>ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative website, reported earlier Monday that the wedding between Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas was heavily funded by Kremlev, a Russian oligarch who heads the International Boxing Association. ProPublica reported that Kremlev \u201cfooted the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses,\u201d including paying to rent out one of two private islands where the three-day party was held and a fireworks show.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, Bettina Trump said that she and the president\u2019s son were married in a private ceremony \u201csurrounded ONLY by our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weekend that followed had actually been planned well in advance as a fun weekend with friends. It was never intended to be our wedding weekend. When our original wedding plans changed, we simply decided to get married before it and arrived at an already planned weekend as newlyweds,\u201d it went on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that something so personal and happy can be recast as something political or sinister simply because of who someone is or where they come from. Friendship doesn\u2019t require a political motive. Generosity doesn\u2019t automatically come with an agenda. And sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"false\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" data-displayinline-player-id=\"miniplayer_12053364_6aa84cae4a687\" data-displayinline-video-id=\"12053364\" data-displayinline-ratio=\"16:9\" data-displayinline=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/12053364\/#autoplay&amp;stickyiframe=miniplayer_12053364_6aa84cae4a687\" data-displayinline-sticky=\"true\" data-permutive-data=\"{&quot;content&quot;:{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Trump says Putin wants peace deal for Ukraine amid continued strikes&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;sections&quot;:[&quot;videos&quot;,&quot;national&quot;,&quot;politics&quot;,&quot;us-news&quot;],&quot;keywords&quot;:[&quot;international&quot;,&quot;peace-talks&quot;,&quot;putin&quot;,&quot;russia&quot;,&quot;short-clip&quot;,&quot;trump&quot;,&quot;ukraine-war&quot;,&quot;zelenskyy&quot;],&quot;iab&quot;:{&quot;categories&quot;:[&quot;People and Society\/Family and Relationships&quot;,&quot;Hobbies and Leisure&quot;,&quot;People and Society\/Family and Relationships\/Marriage&quot;,&quot;News&quot;,&quot;People and Society&quot;,&quot;News\/Politics&quot;,&quot;Hobbies and Leisure\/Special Occasions&quot;,&quot;Hobbies and Leisure\/Special Occasions\/Weddings&quot;],&quot;tags&quot;:[&quot;Bettina Anderson&quot;,&quot;China&quot;,&quot;Deerfield Residence&quot;,&quot;Denmark&quot;,&quot;Donald Trump&quot;,&quot;Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign&quot;,&quot;Donald Trump Jr.&quot;,&quot;Federal Government of Russia&quot;,&quot;Gift&quot;,&quot;Greenland&quot;,&quot;Hillary Clinton&quot;,&quot;International Boxing Association&quot;,&quot;Natalia Veselnitskaya&quot;,&quot;Order of Friendship&quot;,&quot;ProPublica&quot;,&quot;Russia&quot;,&quot;Russian oligarchs&quot;,&quot;Russo-Ukrainian war (2022u2013present)&quot;,&quot;The Bahamas&quot;,&quot;Ukraine&quot;,&quot;Umar Kremlev&quot;,&quot;United States&quot;,&quot;Vladimir Putin&quot;,&quot;White House&quot;]}}}\">\n<div class=\"c-video__inner \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__placeholder\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__overlay\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-video__data\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"c-video__duration\">4:46<\/time><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__title\">Trump says Putin wants peace deal for Ukraine amid continued strikes<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That gift comes as Russia remains at war following its invasion of Ukraine and as the president has failed to broker a promised peace deal between the nations.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlev was recently honored with the Order of Friendship by Putin, according to the International Boxing Association, and accompanied Putin to China as part of a Russian delegation, according to the Chinese state media cited by the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr. has previously been scrutinized over his Russian ties. During the 2016 campaign, his meeting with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower was the subject of intense scrutiny by federal and congressional investigators probing whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to meddle in the election.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting had been billed as an opportunity to discuss potentially incriminating information about the president\u2019s then-Democrat opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as part of the Russian government\u2019s efforts to help Trump Jr.\u2019s father win the White House.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s new wife, Bettina, is confirming that her May wedding weekend celebration was partially funded by a man with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. 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