Putin ally paid for Trump Jr's wedding celebrations as 'extraordinarily generous gift'

Donald Trump Jr and his wife have said a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin paid for two nights of their wedding celebrations as an "extraordinarily generous gift".

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