Good afternoon. Reports of Donald Trump’s alleged misuse of potentially sensitive information has reached Australian shores. Allegations have emerged that an “excited” Trump shared specific details about US nuclear submarines with the Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt, including the exact number of nuclear warheads the submarines carry.
US news outlet ABC News reported that Trump spoke to Pratt at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in April 2021 – three months after he left office. Simon Birmingham, who was a senior minister in Scott Morrison’s government when it negotiated the Aukus security partnership with the Biden administration, said he and other members of Australia’s national security committee were expected to keep operational details secret “for the rest of our lives”.
