Trump responds to claim from Australian billionaire that he divulged critical secrets

Former President Donald Trump vehemently denied claims by Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt that he shared sensitive state secrets in a new chapter to the federal cases the 2024 GOP front-runner faces.

"The failing New York Times story, leaked by Deranged Jack Smith and the Biden 'Political Opponent Abuser' DOJ, about a red haired weirdo from Australia, named Anthony Pratt, is Fake News," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I never spoke to him about Submarines, but I did speak to him about creating jobs in Ohio and Pennsylvania..."

Pratt has faced questioning by special counsel Jack Smith in one of two federal investigations against the former president. Smith has charged Trump with allegedly taking classified documents with him from the White House after leaving office and obstructing efforts to retrieve them.

Trump allegedly told the Australian businessman in late 2019 that he bombed Iraq before the strike became public knowledge, as well as described, post-presidency two years later, a number of nuclear warheads that U.S. submarines move around with and how close they can supposedly get to a Russian submarine without detection, sources told ABC News earlier this month.