The former US president has taken to social media to defend his dealings with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt.
Former US president Donald Trump has dismissed accounts of his conversations with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt as “fake news” and insisted their discussions were focused on economic development.
uncovered separate audio recordings of the billionaire talking about his relationship with “mafia”-like Donald Trump, the covert recordings reveal the billionaire claimed the former president also disclosed non-public details about US military action in Iraq and a private conversation with Iraq’s leader.
Pratt gained access to Trump by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on membership and event fees at the ex-president’s private Florida club, Mar-a-Lago.Pratt is heard on the tapes simultaneously admiring and besmirching Trump and comparing him to a mafia figure “with balls” who uses henchmen to do his dirty work.
In claiming he had paid a fee of “about a million bucks” to Giuliani in return for the Trump lawyer attending Pratt’s birthday party, the Visy boss explained that “Rudy is someone I hope will be useful one day”.“He’s a member of the most successful club in the country, Mar-a-Lago, and from a friendly country in Australia, one of our great allies,” Trump said.
“I don’t know him well, but he seemed like a nice person. He built a factory in Ohio and created American jobs, which I’m in favour of.”
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