2026年9月22日 美国东部时间上午10:24 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
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犹他州共和党参议员约翰·柯蒂斯要求参议院司法委员会展开调查，此前有报道称一名俄罗斯寡头为总统之子小唐纳德·特朗普的一场婚礼庆典提供了部分资金。
柯蒂斯在一封信中要求委员会审查唐纳德·特朗普总统和前总统乔·拜登的家族商业往来，称此举是恢复政府公信力的必要举措。
此次调查请求是在调查机构ProPublica上周报道称，与克里姆林宫有关联的俄罗斯寡头乌马尔·克雷姆列夫为小唐纳德·特朗普在巴哈马举办的婚礼庆典花费了数十万美元之后提出的。
“因此，我谨请求参议院司法委员会启动一项调查，调查总统家族关系是否被用于为私人谋取经济利益、获得优惠待遇，或被国内外利益集团用作获取通道的工具，”柯蒂斯在写给参议院司法委员会主席查克·格拉斯利和 ranking member 迪克·德宾的信中写道。
这是罕见的共和党人呼吁调查总统家族商业往来的案例。
“作为调查的一部分，我敦促委员会传唤小唐纳德·特朗普和亨特·拜登，就他们过往的商业往来、与外国个人和实体的关系、收到的礼物或其他福利，以及任何他们利用或被认为利用与总统的关系获取价值的情况作证，”他补充道。
CNN已联系该委员会请求置评。
在卸任前，拜登赦免了因联邦税务和枪支定罪面临判刑的儿子亨特·拜登。亨特·拜登也因其有争议的海外商业交易受到审查。
特朗普总统上周则表示，他的儿子已经偿还了这位俄罗斯亿万富翁的资金，并补充说，朋友为婚礼庆典买单是很常见的事。
“他认识的一个人——我猜是他的朋友——为他举办了婚礼派对。这非常常见。我听说过很多人举办婚礼派对的事，”总统说道。
小特朗普和他的妻子贝蒂娜·安德森此前在社交媒体的一份声明中证实，克雷姆列夫为他们的婚礼庆典提供了资金支持，并为接受这份礼物辩护，称这场庆祝活动是在正式婚礼仪式之后举办的。
“不幸的是，仅仅因为某人的身份或出身，如此私人且快乐的事情就被重新诠释为政治事件或险恶阴谋，”他们在安德森的Instagram帖子中写道。“友谊不需要政治动机。慷慨不一定附带议程。有时结婚礼物就是单纯的结婚礼物。”
柯蒂斯此前就克雷姆列夫为婚礼庆典提供资金一事表达了担忧，并于上周在X平台上公开表态。
“在我看来，这整件事都很可疑。这是腐败，我对此感到不满，”柯蒂斯在其社交媒体账号发布的一段视频中说道。
“这个国家不应该对共和党总统家族和民主党总统家族采用双重标准。国会监督也不应随着白宫控制权的更迭而开始或结束，”柯蒂斯在信中写道。
GOP senator asks Senate committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. over wedding celebration funds
2026-09-22 10:24 AM ET / CNN
By Lauren Fox
Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Bettina disembark from Air Force One as they arrive with US President Donald Trump at Shannon Airport in Shannon, western Ireland on September 12, 2026.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah is requesting that the Senate Judiciary Committee investigate after a report that a Russian oligarch helped to fund parts of a wedding celebration for the president’s son Donald Trump Jr.
Curtis asked in a letter for the committee to review President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden’s families’ business dealings, writing that it is an essential move toward restoring trust in the government.
The request comes after the investigative outlet ProPublica reported last week that Umar Kremlev, a Kremlin-linked Russian oligarch, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Trump Jr.’s wedding celebration in the Bahamas.
“I therefore respectfully request that the Senate Judiciary Committee launch an investigation into the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment, or access by domestic and foreign interests,” Curtis wrote in a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking member Dick Durbin.
It marked a rare occasion of a Republican calling for an investigation into the president’s family’s business dealings.
“As part of that investigation, I urge the Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden to testify regarding their past business dealings, relationships with foreign individuals and entities, gifts, or other benefits they have received, and any instances in which their relationship to the President was invoked or understood to provide value,” he added.
CNN has reached out to the committee to request comment.
Before leaving office, Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden who faced sentencing for federal tax and gun convictions. Hunter Biden had also been scrutinized for his controversial foreign business dealings.
President Trump, for his part, said last week that his son paid back the Russian billionaire, adding that it was common for someone’s friend to pay for a wedding celebration.
“A person that he knows — I guess, a friend of his — gave him a wedding party. That’s very common. I’ve heard of many people giving wedding parties,” the president said.
Trump Jr. and his wife Bettina Anderson had previously confirmed in a statement on social media that Kremlev funded aspects of their wedding party, and defended their acceptance of the gift, saying the celebration came after the actual wedding ceremony.
“It’s unfortunate that something so personal and happy can be recast as something political or sinister simply because of who someone is or where they come from,” they wrote in a post on Anderson’s Instagram account. “Friendship doesn’t require a political motive. Generosity doesn’t automatically come with an agenda. And sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift.”
Curtis previously raised concerns about Kremlev bankrolling the wedding celebration and spoke out on X last week about it.
“To me, it just stinks. It’s corruption, I don’t like it,” Curtis said in a video posted to his social media account.
“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. Nor should congressional oversight begin and end when control of the White House changes hands,” Curtis wrote in the letter.