An Australian businessman who made his way into Donald Trump’s inner circle expressed his shock with the former president’s behavior toward his wife in newly-revealed comments.
The New York Times and 60 Minutes Australia reported that prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith have interviewed Anthony Pratt, the billionaire owner of an international paper and packaging company who has cultivated a friendly relationship with Trump over the last few years. Pratt’s money bought him a Mar-a-Lago membership and recurring proximity to the former president, so his private conversations with Trump — both in and outside of office — have drawn the interest of Smith’s team.
“He knows exactly what to say and what not to say so that he avoids jail, but gets so close to it that it looks to everyone when he’s breaking the law,” Pratt said in one recording. In another portion, Pratt spoke of a shocking conversation between Donald Trump and Melania Trump, in which the former president allegedly asked his wife parade around in a bikini by the poolside to show other men “what they were missing.”
“Melania, who was sitting next to him at dinner. He said ‘I asked Melania to walk around the pool in a bikini so all the other guys could get a look at what they were missing. Then Melania said back to him ‘I’ll do that when you walk around with me in your bikini.’”