{"id":78677,"date":"2026-09-14T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/russian-oligarch-close-to-putin-reportedly-paid-for-part-of-donald-trump-jrs-lavish-wedding\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:55:07","slug":"russian-oligarch-close-to-putin-reportedly-paid-for-part-of-donald-trump-jrs-lavish-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/russian-oligarch-close-to-putin-reportedly-paid-for-part-of-donald-trump-jrs-lavish-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian oligarch close to Putin reportedly paid for part of Donald Trump Jr\u2019s lavish wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s eldest child married Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson in three-day celebration across two exclusive private islands<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/sep\/14\/donald-trump-mail-in-voting-supreme-court-blocked-ukraine-oil-diplomat-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A top Democrat has demanded answers after it was reported that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr\u2019s wedding in the Bahamas earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr, the US president\u2019s eldest child, married Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson in a lavish three-day celebration across two exclusive private islands in May, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putin\">according to ProPublica<\/a> was partially bankrolled by Umar Kremlev, a member of the Russian president\u2019s circle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/14\/russian-oligarch-trump-jr-wedding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s eldest child married Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson in three-day celebration across two exclusive private islands US politics live \u2013 latest updates A top Democrat has demanded answers after it was reported that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr\u2019s wedding in the &#8230; <a title=\"Russian oligarch close to Putin reportedly paid for part of Donald Trump Jr\u2019s lavish wedding\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/russian-oligarch-close-to-putin-reportedly-paid-for-part-of-donald-trump-jrs-lavish-wedding\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Russian oligarch close to Putin reportedly paid for part of Donald Trump Jr\u2019s lavish wedding\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}