The Mar-A-Lago golf resort has proved a fertile ground for investigators into Donald Trump’s alleged criminal activity after leaving the White House.
ABC News reported on Thursday that Trump allegedly dissucsed “potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago club.”
Trump is alleged to have revealed national security secrets to an Australian billionaire who then “allegedly shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists,” according to multiple ABC sources.
Federal investigators learned of the incident in their investigation into Trump’s alleged hoarding of classified documents at his golf resort.
“Prosecutors and FBI agents have at least twice this year interviewed the Mar-a-Lago member, Anthony Pratt, who runs the U.S.-based Pratt Industries, one of the world’s largest packaging companies,” ABC News reported.
In those interviews, Pratt described how, looking to make conversation with Trump during a Mar-a-Lago meeting in April 2021, he brought up the submarine fleet, which the two had discussed before, sources told ABC.
Pratt allegedly told Trump he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, which excited the former president. Trump is then alleged to have exposed the exact number of nuclear warheads carried by the submarines, and exactly how close they can get to a Russian submarine without being detected.
The world was quick to react to the shocking news:
I seem to remember the New York Times publishing a not one, not two, but four front page features on the fact that Hillary Clinton MAY have had poor email security. It was all they and Fox News talked about for like a year.
Meanwhile… https://t.co/xmwGrznFDN
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) October 5, 2023
Just a reminder that Trump had multiple meetings with Putin with no other American officials present.
I’m sure it was fine though 🙄 https://t.co/mwO8Swah8A
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) October 5, 2023
The man is an ongoing menace to US national security. https://t.co/CdDr1jSprb
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 5, 2023
Don’t worry, this is definitely the only time Trump has revealed highly classified info to foreign nationals.
Ok this and the time with the Russian ambassador in the Oval Office. But that’s it! https://t.co/nALf4gNEcY
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 5, 2023
https://twitter.com/tracy_walder/status/1710109205976244645
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