According to a media report, Trump is said to have revealed secrets about Macron's love life. It is unclear where he got the intimate information from the French President. However, a connection with the confiscated secret documents on his property in Mar-a-Lago is possible.
Donald Trump is said to have boasted to close associates that he had information about Emmanuel Macron's love life from secret documents. According to a report by the US magazine "Rolling Stone", material from the French President was among the documents seized by the FBI in Mar-a-Lago at the beginning of August. The file, labeled "Info re: President of France," is locked.
It is unclear whether the ex-US President has the information about Macron's private life from the confiscated documents. However, according to the report, he is said to have boasted to close associates on several occasions - both during and after his tenure in the White House - that the details came from classified documents. Trump allegedly spoke of "indecent" behavior by the French president, "that not very many know," two unnamed sources told the US magazine.
The existence of the confidential secret information is said to have triggered a "transatlantic freakout" between Washington and Paris. According to the report, both sides are working flat out to find out what Trump might have found out about Macron in which secret documents.
A spokesman for the French embassy said: "We do not comment on court proceedings in the United States. The embassy has not asked the administration for information on the documents found at former President Trump's residence." Neither the US State Department nor Trump's office wanted to comment on the reports.
It is still unclear whether the documents on Macron found in Mar-a-Lago are classified or not. It's also not the first time Trump has indulged in salacious gossip about the private lives of foreign leaders. "It's often difficult to say whether he's talking nonsense or not," Rolling Stone quotes a source close to the ex-president as saying.
