The conversation was with a Australian businessman during an evening of conversation at Mar-a-Lago…..
That person, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago , went on to pass what he was told on to others….
Here we have ANOTHER of the ex-President disregard for rules aand procedure’s like taking home TONS of classified files?
The man HAS a knack for bending the rules, eh?
The Miami Federal classified file case is getting BIGGER?
But?
Which way will Federal judge Cannon go?
Will she keep trying to bend for the guy who picked her for her job….
Shortly after he left office, former President Donald J. Trump shared apparently classified information about American nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman during an evening of conversation at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The businessman, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago who runs one of the world’s largest cardboard companies, went on to share the sensitive details about the submarines with several others, the people said. Mr. Trump’s disclosures, they said, potentially endangered the U.S. nuclear fleet.
Federal prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, learned about Mr. Trump’s disclosures of the secrets to Mr. Pratt, which were first revealed by ABC News, and interviewed him as part of their investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents, the people said.
According to another person familiar with the matter, Mr. Pratt is now among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses who could testify against Mr. Trump at the classified documents trial, which is scheduled to start in May in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla.
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During his talk with Mr. Pratt, Mr. Trump revealed at least two pieces of critical information about the U.S. submarines’ tactical capacities, according to the people familiar with the matter. Those included how many nuclear warheads the vessels carried and how close they could get to their Russian counterparts without being detected.
It does not appear that Mr. Trump showed Mr. Pratt any of the classified documents that he had been keeping at Mar-a-Lago. In August last year, the F.B.I. carried out a court-approved search warrant at the property and hauled away more than 100 documents containing national security secrets, including some that bore the country’s most sensitive classification markings….
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Mr. Trump’s interactions with Mr. Pratt appear to fit a pattern of the former president’s collapsing his public office and its secrets into his private interests….
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JUST IN: Judge Aileen Cannon has put a hold on a key part of the Trump classified-documents prosecution while she considers Trump’s motion to extend deadlines in the case. Trump lawyers again pushing for a trial date after the 2024 election.
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11:57 AM · Oct 6, 2023