In June 2018, ABC News will report that “several billionaires with deep ties to Russia attended exclusive, invitation-only receptions during Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities … and were given unprecedented access to Trump’s inner circle.”294 ABC will add that “at least one oligarch was ushered into Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol for the traditional Inaugural Day luncheon,” an event so exclusive it is typically “out of reach to donors and even most rank-and-file members of Congress.”
