Republican senator seeks Trump Jr. and Biden subpoenas

Sen. John Curtis, a Republican from Utah, has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden to testify about their business dealings and relationships with foreign individuals, according to a three-page letter he sent Monday to committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking member Dick Durbin. The request marks the first known call by a Republican lawmaker for a probe of the current president's family. Curtis said the inquiry should examine the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment, or access by domestic and foreign interests. Curtis's letter cites recent reports that Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev funded a lavish wedding afterparty for Donald Trump Jr. on a private island in the Bahamas earlier this year. The senator also pointed to the younger Trump's promotion of family-backed cryptocurrency ventures, international real estate deals involving meetings with foreign heads of state, and reported investments in defense contracting. "A toaster is a wedding gift.