Democrat probes Trump Jr wedding funded by Putin-linked oligarch

When a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin funds the wedding celebrations of a sitting president's son — a son who holds stakes in defense contractors — the line between private life and public consequence becomes difficult to locate. Representative Robert Garcia has formally asked the White House and Donald Trump Jr. to account for the nature of that relationship, invoking the old and unresolved question of what foreign generosity expects in return. The inquiry arrives not as an isolated suspicion but as part of a sustained Democratic effort to trace the financial contours of a