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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    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.

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

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      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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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      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…

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.