Anthony Pratt, the Australian billionaire that the Malignant Loser spilled classified secrets to about our nuclear submarine capabilities, has been talking to the Special Counsel about other conversations he's had with the Malignant Loser. Pratt bought his way into the Malignant Loser's Merde O'Lardo club to mingle with the corrupt host and club members, hoping to get business contacts and tax breaks favorable to him in the U.S. According to interviews he's had with Federal prosecutors, Pratt used some serious brown-nosing and money to get into the Malignant Loser's circle of friends, and got an earful from the corrupt 45th President in return. From the New York Times:
"In his interviews with prosecutors, Mr. Pratt recounted how Mr. Trump once revealed to him sensitive information about American nuclear submarines, an episode that Mr. Trump denies. Another witness told prosecutors about hearing uncorroborated reports that Mr. Pratt spent $1 million for tickets to a Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve gala — voluntarily paying the club a huge markup for tickets that actually cost $50,000 or less, according to two people with knowledge of the previously unreported testimony. [snip]
Behind closed doors, however, Mr. Pratt described Mr. Trump’s business practices as being “like the mafia,” according to covert recordings obtained by “60 Minutes Australia” and shared with The Times.
The private comments, captured while Mr. Trump was still president, provide a rare glimpse into how a businessman on the other side of Mr. Trump’s transactions actually viewed the New York real estate developer’s tactics — with a mix of blunt acknowledgment and admiration for someone so willing to test the boundaries of the presidency. [snip]
At one point, Mr. Pratt said, Mr. Trump discussed the phone call he had with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine earlier that year that had helped lead to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment. “That was nothing compared to what I usually do,” Mr. Trump said, in Mr. Pratt’s recounting.
It is not clear whether Mr. Pratt shared these accounts with prosecutors or whether prosecutors are aware of the recordings.
Mr. Pratt also describes on the recording how Mr. Trump asked his wife, Melania, to strut around Mar-a-Lago in her bikini “so all the other guys could get a look at what they were missing.” (our emphasis)
It's all there: "the swamp" pay-to-play, the casual misogyny toward his pathetic third wife, the confession that he's engaged in more serious extortion than with Ukraine to get dirt on then-candidate Joe Biden, and for which he was impeached the first time. And it's all likely in the hands of prosecutors. Pratt got something out of his "investment" in the Malignant Loser, too:
"By the end of Mr. Trump’s first year in office, his presidency was bearing fruit for Mr. Pratt. The Australian Financial Review estimated that Mr. Trump’s 2017 corporate tax cut helped increase Mr. Pratt’s personal wealth by more than $2 billion." (our emphasis)
That's $2 billion the U.S. Treasury will never see, thanks to the Malignant Loser, who's now calling his bean-spilling billionaire acquaintance a "red haired weirdo from Australia." That's like the pot calling the kettle black.
(photo: The Malignant Loser and the "red haired weirdo from Australia". Mick Tsikas/AAP)
