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A Republican Party senator is calling for a probe of the wedding of Donald Trump Jr., an event which was partially bankrolled by a Russian oligarch. “A toaster is a wedding gift,” Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) wrote on X. “A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. ‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now.” ProPublica first reported last 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 Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson were married in the Bahamas in May, per the Associated Press.

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Curtis had called for the same scrutiny of Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, a Democrat, according to the AP. “The country should not have to accept one standard for the family of a Republican president and another for the family of a Democratic president,” Curtis wrote.

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