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According to journalist Maggie Haberman, staff at the White House residence periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet, and the former president was believed to use that method to destroy documents.
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There had been speculation that the former president of the United States,Donald Trump, used to get rid of Oval Office documents that needed to be preserved. There was no proof of it and Trump had denied it on multiple occasions. Some time later, photos with pieces of handwritten notes from the former president have emerged in the White House toilets and some official trip of the then president.
According to the journalist Maggie Haberman, the residence staff White House He would periodically find wads of paper clogging a toilet, and the former president was believed to use that method to destroy documents. Destroying records that should be preserved, such as the documents of the sitting president, is potentially illegal in the United States, so this leak could pose a problem for Trump.
The former president had denied it and called Haberman, a journalist for the New York Times, a “worm.” The phenomenon of possible information destruction It came to light when the committee of the Lower House of the United States Congress that investigates the assault on the Capitol alerted that there was a lack of documents from the former president that would allow a reliable and complete version of the events to be obtained.
SCOOP: Maggie Haberman’s new book about former President Trump will report that White House staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president was the flusher.
📷 Well, it turns out there are photos. https://t.co/GJyxxtOjH9
— Axios (@axios) August 8, 2022
“Common practice”
A White House source has confirmed that this toilet is one of those in the White House and that the other is from a trip abroad. Trump’s spokesman, Taylor Budowich, told ‘Axios’, the medium that has shared them, that you have to be “very desperate to sell books if photos of a piece of paper in a toilet bowl are part of your promotion plan”.
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“We know (…) that there are enough people willing to fabricate stories like this to impress the media class, a media class that is willing to run with anything, as long as it’s anti-Trump,” he added.
Despite the doubts generated by the images, those who know the former president confirm that it is his handwriting. “Trump disposing of documents in this way was not widely known within the West Wing, but some aides were aware of the habit, which he repeatedly performed,” says Haberman.
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