Former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed secret details of US nuclear submarine capabilities with an Australian billionaire shortly after leaving office.
Sources who appear to be inside the office of special counsel Jack Smith claimed that the the conversation began when paper packaging magnate Anthony Pratt told Trump in a conversation at Mar-a-Lago that he thought Australia should buy nuclear submarines from the United States (related Australia to buy US nuclear-powered submarines in deal to counter China).
In Pratt’s account, as described by the sources, Pratt told Trump that he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, to which an excited Trump “leaned in” to Pratt as if discreetly, he then told Pratt two pieces of information about American submarines: the supposed exact number of nuclear warheads they usually carry, and how far they are supposed to be able to reach a Russian submarine undetected.
In emails and conversations after meeting with Trump, Pratt described Trump’s remarks to at least 45 other people, including six journalists, 11 of his company’s employees, 10 Australian officials and three former Australian prime ministers, they said sources at ABC News.
While Pratt told investigators he couldn’t tell whether what Trump said about US submarines was real or just bluster, investigators nonetheless asked Pratt not to repeat the numbers Trump allegedly gave him. say, suggesting the information might be too sensitive to relay further, according to ABC News. it was said
There are many problems with this story.
The information obviously came out of Jack Smith’s office. Given how their investigation was conducted, it must be assumed that the leak was authorized. There is no evidence, Pratt admits, that what Trump said was classified or even true. All evidence indicates that Pratt didn’t think so because he told so many people about the conversation. If he had thought the information was classified, he probably would have kept it to himself.
Smith ties this case to Trump’s prosecution for storing secret documents at Mar-a-Lago. Unless there is a document in that fund that contains that information, it’s hard to see what it has to do with anything. Pratt apparently has been called as a witnessbut unless the government is willing for him to relate this allegedly classified information in court and the government agrees that it is classified, it is an interesting anecdote and nothing more.
The anecdote blends perfectly, too perfectly, with a narrative the Democrats have tried to pin Trump down since before the Russia Hoax implosion.
Still, Mr. Trump has been known to share classified information verbally on other occasions. During an Oval Office meeting in 2017 shortly after he fired FBI Director James B. Comey, Mr. trump revealed sensitive secret intelligence to two Russian officials, according to people briefed on the matter.
Well into his presidency, he also posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, a classified photo of an Iranian launch site.
The indictment in the documents case also accused Mr Trump of showing a classified battle plan to attack Iran to a group of visitors at his Bedminster club, NJ prosecutors say a recording of the meeting with the visitors shows Mr Trump describing the document he brandished as “secret”.
The unprecedented and unnecessary raid on Mar-a-Lago that led to FBI sleuths rummaging through Melania’s panty drawer also led to allegations that the nation’s secrets were strewn about the Trump mansion: see The political persecution of President Trump will not make Trump or his supporters go away or accept the outcome.
Since the attack, we’ve received an ever-changing series of excuses, none supported by any official documents, ranging from recovering presidential papers that should have been turned over to the Archives Administration and National Registers to increasingly outlandish claims. that President Trump had secret nuclear information (A surprising new report indicates that the FBI was looking for extremely sensitive documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago) even payroll documents identifying US deep cover agents.
This story serves two purposes. It’s a story that will never be told in court, but it builds on the story Smith needs to convict Trump. He is basically talking to the jury so that they are predisposed to believe his case. Second, he is playing with people about to vote in the Republican primaries and general election by telling them that Trump cannot be trusted with classified information.
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