The New York Times reported that each man was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to advise Bosnia's pro-Russia Republika Srpska government around its weekend elections.
Who they are and who objected
- Blair is on leave as White House deputy chief of staff while he works for MAGA Inc. on the midterms.
- Trump on Truth Social: "if there's a conflict, I will terminate them, immediately!"
- Thom Tillis (Sen-R North Carolina) criticized the pair; Steve Bannon called them "grifters" and asked for "a forensic audit of where the money went."