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Donald Trump denies giving Australian businessman US nuclear submarine secrets

Sources told the New York Times that Trump’s disclosures ‘potentially endangered the US nuclear fleet’.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD Trump today denied reports in US media that he had shared US nuclear submarine secrets with an Australian businessman in a meeting at his Florida mansion shortly after leaving office.

The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, identified the entrepreneur as billionaire Anthony Pratt, who heads one of the world’s largest packaging companies.

ABC News, which first revealed the story, said Pratt later shared sensitive details about the US submarines with “scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists.”

Sources told the Times that Trump’s disclosures “potentially endangered the US nuclear fleet.”

But Trump dismissed the reports as “false and ridiculous” in a post on his social media platform Truth Social and claimed baselessly that they had been invented by prosecutors trying to damage his chances of returning to the White House.

Federal prosecutors already investigating Trump for holding classified material at Mar-a-Lago after he left office, interviewed Pratt twice about the incident, the reports said.

Pratt may now be called by prosecutors to testify against Trump in his classified documents trial, which is due to start next May in Florida.

Pratt met Trump at his Palm Beach club in April 2021, and told the ex-president he thought Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, ABC reported.

In response, Trump allegedly told the businessman the exact number of nuclear warheads US submarines routinely carry, and precisely how close they can get to Russian submarines without being detected, the news outlet said.

Aside from the classified documents case, Trump faces three other indictments: one federal and one in Georgia over his efforts to overturn his election loss and stay in power, and one in New York stemming from alleged election-eve hush money payments in 2016 to a porn star.

Trump is currently on trial in a civil case in New York on charges of drastically and fraudulently inflating the value of his assets so as to get better terms from banks and insurance companies.

© AFP 2023 

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    Oct 6th 2023, 10:25 PM

    I thought the comedy show was over when he left the white house, but the new season just keeps getting better.

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    Oct 6th 2023, 10:57 PM

    Is the journal gonna talk about biden building the trump wall? No? ,, I thought it was racist no? , the media in this country is as bad as america

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    Oct 7th 2023, 12:04 AM

    @Stephen Flood: top marks in whataboutery in college ??

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    Oct 7th 2023, 12:30 AM

    @Stephen Flood: Do you think building a wall is the right thing to do? Are you saying Biden is doing the right thing? Are you now a Biden supporter?

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    Oct 7th 2023, 9:50 PM

    @Stephen Flood: They’re discussing Trump crimes. Nothing to do with Biden.
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    Oct 7th 2023, 4:28 AM

    @ ‘The Journal,

    Are you afraid to address the subject of migration in this country, comments closed on EU migration but okay to discuss America’s.

    The Journal has a clear biased agenda!

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    Oct 7th 2023, 8:05 AM

    @David: So disappointed we didn’t get to hear your views on it and all the arguments the comments would create. Such a shame. Hope you’re Ok, hun.

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    Oct 6th 2023, 10:52 PM

    Well,.its the NYT’s. So, translation. Trump had a general conversation with an Aussie about Submarines. Not like he’s an expert in the field and could divulge anything meaningful to a rando Aussie businessman who also knows fark all about Submarines. Typical of the non sense the NYT publishes about Trump. National Security issue MA

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    Oct 7th 2023, 8:03 AM

    @: Don’t forget misogyny, racism, homophobia etc.

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    Oct 6th 2023, 10:50 PM

    If Trump gets elected again, it’ll be 4 years of TV gold….can’t wait

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    Oct 6th 2023, 11:14 PM

    @John O’Regan: he will crater the US, won’t be very funny globally

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    Oct 6th 2023, 11:45 PM

    @John O’Regan: When, not if. Democrats are in a mess with Bumbling Joe and Kamala. Talk of rolling out Michelle Obama as a stand in.. Desperate times. Bidenomics LOL

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    Oct 7th 2023, 12:31 AM

    @John O’Regan: Not nearly as entertaining as the episode where he goes to prison.

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    Oct 7th 2023, 5:58 AM

    @Journal Factchecker: How in a mess?

    The US is at full employment.
    The Biden admin has created nearly 14 million jobs so far. Trump lost over 3 million, and is the only president in recent history that left office with fewer jobs that when they entered office. In fact, Trump has the worst jobs record since the Great Depression.

    US GDP fell under Trump.

    Trump added $7 trillion to US national debt, to give tax breaks to the already obscenely wealthy.

    Remember Trump’s promised healthcare plan? it would be so simple it would only take a week or so? That one?
    Whatever happened to that?
    Or his infrastructure weeks? This week was infrastructure week, So was the week after. And the week after that…
    Whatever happened to the promised infrastructure bills?
    None of these things happened.

    The guy has already lost his NT fraud case; the current case is just to set the extent of damages.

    Biden, on the other hand, has got infrastructure and healthcare bills through Congress.

    You’re not really very good at facts, are you “Journal Factchecker”?

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    Oct 7th 2023, 8:04 AM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: trump left end of 2020. Covid came. Of course there was less jobs.

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    Oct 6th 2023, 10:51 PM

    Windmills kill whales.

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    Oct 6th 2023, 10:40 PM

    Translation: Trump gave Australian man the nuclear codes on a piece of toilet paper

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    Oct 6th 2023, 11:13 PM

    Trump is a lier

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    Oct 7th 2023, 12:51 AM

    @Anthony Ross: I’ve seen you post this many many times and you always spell “liar” wrong. It’s one of my pet hates. If you’re going to post the same boring drivel every time, could you at least spell it properly. Thanks in advance, Brian.

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    Oct 7th 2023, 9:03 AM

    @: Maybe he thinks in a French accent and writes it as he thinks it sounds?

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    Oct 7th 2023, 2:01 AM

    I’d say the best evidence we have of never encountering extra terrestrial beings, is that if Trump had knowledge of it. He’d definitely have spilled the beans by now.

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    Oct 7th 2023, 6:07 AM

    Yes but trump sometimes tells little lies doesn’t he.

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    Oct 7th 2023, 8:06 AM

    @Fishy: He sure does and he also often tells big ones too. Bigly ones.

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    Oct 7th 2023, 9:19 AM

    When the msm publishes a sensational story it doesn’t have to be true. They don’t even have to fact check. When found out to be untrue it then disappears but the damage to a persons character remains.

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    Oct 6th 2023, 10:34 PM

    Amazing headline.

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    Oct 7th 2023, 12:02 AM

    @Setanta O’Toole: I know, I think he also denied that he said that he has walked on the moon. Somebody said they asked him

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    Oct 7th 2023, 6:04 AM

    @F2yxfluD: Yep, all those denials.

    He denied sexual assault, but was found to have done so.
    He denied fraudulently using charity funds for his own ends, but was found to have done so.
    He denied fraud in his business practices, but lost that court case last week (the current case is just to set the extend of damages and what punishment is appropriate).

    He also made denials around the Covid pandemic, that have resulted in a lot of deaths.

    And he has denied many other things which are in front of the courts right now.

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    Oct 7th 2023, 8:26 AM

    biased journoz.. hee!

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    Oct 7th 2023, 1:41 PM

    No wonder the world is the way it is. People supporting and voting for an absolutely “LUNATIC “ the only thing this man will deliver is WW3. He needs to learn how to engage his brain before Ophir Mouth. Not very sure he’s capable of even doing that.
    Dangerous creature!!

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    Oct 7th 2023, 2:43 PM

    Sensationalist headline from the media..il give trump some credit he persevered in challenging the media and their controlling narratives-this headline is another example of that

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    Oct 7th 2023, 2:53 PM

    The media, omg they are obsessed with the DONALD at least we could understand him when he spoke.
    The world was a lot more peaceful when he was in charge and Everything cost 30% less
    Oh and illegal migration was far less.

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    Oct 7th 2023, 2:57 PM

    Tear into every politician, like they are digging at the Donald.
    Most would all drop like flies and lose their businesses. They probably jump off a cliff too If the truth came out about the most of them and their corruption

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    Oct 7th 2023, 5:11 PM

    Is there anything that Trump is NOT accused of doing?

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    Oct 7th 2023, 5:30 PM

    @Pato: ..being a uniter and bringing the country together and not being the most divisive President ever, seeking power by not setting one section of society against the other?

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    Oct 8th 2023, 12:46 AM

    @jNOlXyvx: have you missed State of the Union addresses by Biden?

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    Oct 7th 2023, 12:40 PM

    The fact that it’s even in question tells you everything you need to know about him.

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