'It hadn't even been on the news yet and he [Trump] said, 'So I just bombed Iraq today,'' Australian billionaire said in leaked audio.
Then-President Trump, Australian businessman Anthony Pratt and then-Australian Prime Minister Scott at Pratt's recycling and paper plant in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 2019. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen/The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty ImagesTrump leaked classified information about U.S. nuclear submarines to Pratt, who is one of Australia's richest people. Trump has denied the claims.
"And the president of Iraq called me up and said, you just levelled my city'. And he said, 'And I said to him, OK, what are you going to do about it?'"
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