Donald Trump shared classified information on US nuclear submarines with Australian billionaire, media reveal

An investigation is underway into Donald Trump’s alleged negligent handling of dozens of confidential documents after his departure from the White House, a file for which the ex-president will be tried in May 2024.

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Donald Trump meets Australian businessman Anthony Pratt in Wapakoneta (United States), September 22, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Donald Trump discussed American nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman shortly before his departure from the White House, ABC News and the New York Times. However, confidential information. The scene took place in April 2021 in the former president’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, a private club of which Australian Anthony Pratt is a member, according to these media, citing unidentified sources.

This billionaire, who runs one of the largest cardboard packaging companies in the world, then shared this information with dozens of other people: at least 45 according to ABC News, including employees of his company, journalists and journalists. Australian officials, including former prime ministers.

A danger for the American nuclear fleet

According to these same sources, Donald Trump’s exchanges with this businessman could endanger the American nuclear fleet. The former president, who told his interlocutor that Australia should buy American submarines, revealed the number of nuclear warheads that these devices normally carry and at what distance they can approach their Russian counterparts without being able to be detected, according to the two media.

According to them, Anthony Pratt was interviewed on this subject by federal investigators who are working on the file of the alleged negligent management by Donald Trump of dozens of confidential documents after his departure from the White House, for which the ex-president will be tried in May 2024 in Florida.


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