Good bartenders are characterized because everything that happens and is said at the bar stays at the bar. If this quality standard is applied to Donald Trump as president or former president, his grade is a fail.
Months after leaving the White House, according to the ABC network, Trump dedicated himself to disseminating potentially sensitive information about United States nuclear submarines with a client of his Mar-a-Lago (Florida) club. Specifically, billionaire Anthony Pratt, who allegedly shared this information with dozens of others, including numerous foreign officials, his employees, and a handful of journalists.
According to experts such as Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, Trump's attitude only demonstrates his contempt for the structure of the state that he swore to defend and his irresponsibility towards national security. There are few things more confidential than the details of the US Navy's nuclear submarines, but, apparently, that was not an impediment for the former president to share them with anyone, they noted.
The team of special prosecutor Jack Smith, who is investigating the case for the theft of Trump's secret and classified documents when he left Washington and stored them in his Florida mansion, was informed of this alleged disclosure.
This information sheds more light on how the former president handled highly sensitive information about government secrets. Prosecutors and FBI agents have questioned Anthony Pratt, president of Pratt Industries, with headquarters in the United States, one of the largest packaging companies in the world, on at least two occasions.
In these interrogations, the magnate described that during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in April 2021, Trump brought up the topic of the submarine fleet that they had previously talked about. From this testimony. Pratt told Trump that Australia should start buying submersibles from the US, which encouraged Trump, who approached Pratt, as if in a gesture of discretion, and gave him two pieces of information: the supposed number of nuclear warheads they normally carry and the distance at which they could be located from a Russian submarine without being detected.
Pratt explained those details to at least 45 people through conversations and emails. These included six journalists or three former Australian prime ministers.
Although he could not tell them whether what Trump confessed to him was real or a boast, investigators asked Pratt not to repeat the numbers that the former president allegedly told him. It is not clear if the information was correct, but the episode is being investigated by Smith's team,
Club employees acknowledged that Pratt began divulging details shortly after the conversation and expressed shock and concern upon hearing what their boss had disclosed to a non-U.S. citizen. The Australian businessman told investigators that Trump did not show him any official government documents in that meeting or in others they had. At that time, Australian executive officials were negotiating with President Joe Biden the agreement under which the allied country purchased nuclear-powered submarines. The agreement was sealed at the beginning of this year, although Biden clarified that none of these submersible ships will carry nuclear weapons.
