# Republican senator calls for Trump Jr. and Biden subpoenas

> Utah senator John Curtis urges investigation into presidential family members' foreign business dealings and gifts.
- Title: Republican senator calls for Trump Jr. and Biden subpoenas
- Summary: Utah senator John Curtis urges investigation into presidential family members' foreign business dealings and gifts. Republican senator John Curtis called for…
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- Source: ABC News — https://abcnews.com/Politics/republican-senator-calls-judiciary-committee-subpoena-donald-trump/story?id=136648436
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## Curtis calls for dual subpoenas
Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee leaders to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden to investigate the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit.
## Trump Jr.'s wedding afterparty funded by Russian oligarch
Curtis posted a video Friday saying reports that Donald Trump Jr.'s two-day wedding afterparty in May was funded by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin stink and are corruption.

> stink
## Trump says son repaid the oligarch
President Donald Trump said last week his son had repaid the oligarch for the afterparty costs, though no evidence of that alleged repayment has been publicly offered.
## Curtis demands equal standards
Curtis writes that the country should not accept one standard for a Republican president's family and another for a Democratic president's family, nor should oversight begin and end when White House control changes.

> 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.
## Hunter Biden's Ukraine business scrutiny
Hunter Biden, youngest son of former President Joe Biden, has faced years of Republican scrutiny over unproven claims he and his father pressured a Ukrainian oligarch to pay them millions to fire a prosecutor investigating Burisma.
## Durbin backs Curtis's investigation request
Sen. Dick Durbin, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, said Tuesday he supports Curtis's good faith request for the investigation, stating corruption must never be tolerated.

> Corruption must never be tolerated.
## Curtis raises national security concerns
Curtis writes that Trump Jr.'s foreign business activities, cryptocurrency ventures, international real estate deals, and defense contracting investments raise questions about foreign access and may create national security vulnerabilities.

> These reports raise legitimate questions about foreign access to members of a sitting president's family and whether such relationships can create actual or perceived expectations of favorable treatment.
## Grassley hasn't yet read the letter
When asked about Curtis's request on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley told ABC News he couldn't comment because he hadn't yet read the letter.
## Key takeaway

Republican senator John Curtis called for subpoenas of Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden to investigate whether presidential family members used their relationships for financial benefit from foreign interests.