Washington. The former President of the United States asked his wife Melania Trump to parade around their Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida in a bikini, ‘so everyone can see what they’re missing’. This was revealed in a recording of Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt published by Australian network 9 Now.
Pratt, head of a multinational paper and packaging company, began building his relationship with former President Donald Trump while he was in office and during his 2020 presidential campaign. The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and 60 Minutes Australia collaborated on the research and the program features audio recordings of the billionaire’s conversations with Trump and their one-on-one discussions.
Pratt was later questioned by investigators from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office, the New York Times reported. Pratt has been named as a potential witness in the case of Donald Trump’s misuse of classified material after he leaves the White House in 2021. It is unclear whether Pratt shared these accounts with prosecutors or was aware of the recordings.
Pratt revealed in the tape that the former president asked his wife to wear a bikini around Mar-a-Lago to make other men jealous. She said Donald Trump asked the then-first lady to walk around the pool in her swimsuit “so everyone else could see what they were missing.”
However, she shot back and said, “I’ll only do this if you walk around in a bikini with me.” In a statement to The New York Times, a spokesman for Donald Trump slammed prosecutors, saying the information “came from sources that completely lack proper context and relevant information.”
According to a New York Times report, Trump defended his relationship with the Australian billionaire, saying, “He is a member of the most successful club in the country, Mar-a-Lago, and is from a friendly country like Australia. I didn’t know him well, but he seemed like a nice guy. “They built a factory in Ohio and created American jobs, which I’m all for.”
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Tags: Donald Trump, Melania Trump
First published: October 23, 2023, 20:09 IST