Republican senator says Donald Trump Jr should be subpoenaed over wedding party funded by Putin-linked oligarch

In an apparent show of bipartisanship, a Republican senator has called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden.

Utah Senator John Curtis made the request Monday, saying both men — the sons of the current and former president — should answer questions about whether they used their family ties to turn a profit.

“For years, serious questions have been raised about members of presidential families using their names and proximity to the President to advance private business interests,” Curtis wrote in a letter to the committee.

As an example of potential malfeasance, the senator pointed to Donald Trump Jr’s wedding party in the Bahamas, which, it was recently revealed, was bankrolled by a Russian oligarch linked to President Vladimir Putin.

“A toaster is a wedding gift,” Curtis wrote. “A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. ‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now.”

Curtis’s letter comes as public concern over government corruption has reached new heights: a record-high 89 percent of Americans now say corruption is widespread in the U.S. government, according to Gallup’s September survey.