(Washington) Donald Trump denied Friday having shared confidential information on American nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman shortly after leaving the White House, brushing aside the revelations from several media outlets.
According to ABC News and the New York Timesthe scene took place in April 2021 in the former president’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, a club of which Australian Anthony Pratt is also a member.
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.
According to the two media, Mr. 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 The ex-president will be tried in May 2024 in Florida.
The former US president called the revelations “ridiculous”.
“These false stories are being relayed by corrupt prosecutors who are trying to interfere with the 2024 presidential election,” he accused, without evidence.
According to the two media, Mr. 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.
ABC News specifies that, during his interviews with federal investigators, Anthony Pratt indicated that he did not know whether Donald Trump was serious or bragging, but that investigators asked him not to repeat this information, indicating that it could be too much. sensitive to be relayed in public.