Here is a picture of the head of Russia's Presidential Security Service (i.e., Putin's bodyguards) with the oligarch/gangster who bankrolled Don Jr.'s wedding, Umar Kremlev. The chief bodyguard has used his influence w/ Putin to funnel assets to Kremlev. Unfuckingbelievable. My head is spinning.

About Kremlev's relative nastiness, btw. AND he participates in the kidnapping and brainwashing/forced russification of Ukrainian children, per the propublica article. IE, hes a genocidaire too. So quite a bit worse than "pretty nasty," but generally a nasty kind of guy as well!

Oh, and he's the guy that first claimed that the Algerian women's boxer Imane Khelif was intersex, because he wanted to disqualify her after she defeated a Russian boxer. Same guy. Basically, nasty!

I just don’t think he was much of a biker. In the process, though, he got close to power somehow, and ended up being gifted control of a bunch of profitable industry, mostly sports betting. Now he’s head of the boxing federation, and uses that to further Russian interests abroad

Yeah, as far as i recall, Kremlev was sort of a low-level boxing promoter and probably (being a boxer) a minor enforcer for some Moscow Oblast mafia like Podolsk or something in the 2000s. Then he joined up with the Night Wolves, where tbh he looked kinda awkward in his little leather vests, 1/2

When we were trying to price out wedding venues, I'd be lying if I said it didn't cross my mind

Umar Kremlev is a pretty nasty guy. I feel like he can't be fun at parties