Robert Garcia
Role at the time: U.S. Representative for California and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, on X
Statement summary
On X, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said Kremlev "spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the President's son," asked "what did he get in return," and said "we need answers."
“spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the President's son. What did he get in return? We need answers.”
NBC News' report published the evening of September 14, 2026, the day Bettina Trump's Instagram post and President Trump's statement to NBC both appeared. It also gives background on Kremlev's history with the Trump family and the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
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Relative to whether Donald Trump Jr.'s acceptance of a Kremlev-funded wedding celebration was improper, Garcia directly questions what Kremlev received in exchange for his spending and demands answers, expressing suspicion of the arrangement rather than accepting it as ordinary.