The audio features a man — who "60 Minutes Australia" identifies as Anthony Pratt — recalling an encounter with the former president and former first lady at Mar-a-Lago, their private Palm Beach club.
Leaked audio reveals how Melania Trump turned the tables on husband Donald Trump after he allegedly made an objectifying request of his third wife.
It is a story that came from Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt, in a conversation that was recorded and then leaked to "60 Minutes Australia."
The audio features a man — who "60 Minutes Australia" identifies as Pratt — recalling an encounter with the former president and former first lady at Mar-a-Lago, their private Palm Beach club.
"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,'" the man identified as Pratt says. "Then, Melania said, back to him: 'I'll do that when you walk around with me in your bikini.'"
Pratt and Trump had once been close, with the former president visiting the billionaire's cardboard packaging plant in Ohio while in office.
"Anthony is one of the most successful men in the world, perhaps Australia's most successful man, as they say," Trump said while speaking to the press during that 2019 visit.
That relationship soured after news broke that Trump had allegedly shared sensitive secrets about U.S. nuclear submarine capabilities with Pratt, an allegation that Trump denies.
Pratt even notes of Trump on the leaked audio: "He's got this ability to say outrageous things. Non-stop."
Trump lashed out at Pratt on social media soon after the segment aired, calling him a "red-haired weirdo from Australia" and claiming that the bikini story is "fake news."
