Jack Smith could call Mar-a-Lago member Trump shared secrets with in docs case: reporter

Prosecutors in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case could call Anthony Pratt, an Australian billionaire with a membership at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, to establish a fact pattern over the former president's theft of classified national defense information, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman argued on CNN Thursday evening.

This comes after new reporting from ABC News that Trump shared U.S. nuclear submarine secrets with Pratt shortly after leaving office.

"Maggie, what more have you learned from your reporting?" asked anchor Anderson Cooper.

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"We confirmed ... that Trump had this conversation with Mr. Pratt, who is a member of Mar-a-Lago not long after leaving office," said Haberman. "This was a conversation in which Trump supposedly revealed a couple of pieces of sensitive information. Now, it's not clear exactly what Trump said. We know that according to ABC, it was specifics about capabilities and about distance that the submarines can go and how close they can get in certain cases. This is not — it doesn't appear that he showed a document to this gentleman. I don't know for prosecutors that that matters, because our understanding is he is among the trial witnesses who prosecutors have listed as possible people they will call. And what they would likely use him for is to establish a pattern of Trump being loose with sensitive information and the government's secrets."

"So he might actually be called?" asked Cooper.

"He is among dozens of people who might be called," said Haberman. "And this list stretches back through the White House years. Because, Anderson, as you know, as we've reported, as CNN has reported, Trump has a history of allegedly talking about classified information or putting out classified information. There was an infamous Oval Office meeting with two Russian officials where he is said to have spilled some sensitive information that upset Israeli officials. He tweeted out a classified picture of an Iranian launch site, I think it was in 2019. This is something he has done for a while. This is the kind of behavior that added to why President Biden cut off Trump's briefings that ex-presidents get to sensitive information and classified briefings, because according to the current president, what could happen other than the Trump would slip up and say something?"

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