Posted on 08/08/2022 8:28:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
Photos of documents that former President Donald Trump flushed down a toilet at the White House have been released.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman shared the photos with Axios and posted them to Twitter.
“Trump denied flushing documents as president, as I learned during reporting last year for CONFIDENCE MAN. A Trump White House source recently provided PHOTOS of paper with Trump’s handwriting in two different toilets,” Haberman tweeted.
She added, “On the left is a White House toilet, the word ‘qualified’ and a capital I visible. On the left, a toilet from a Trump trip overseas.
”In another tweet, Haberman noted that “under the presidential records act, documents generated by and sent to presidents are to be preserved by the office.”
She continued, “Trump’s habit of ripping paper that had to be taped back up was known; his habit of discarding them was not.”
Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich issued a statement to Axios responding to the report.
“You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of paper in a toilet bowl is part of your promotional plan,” Budowich said.
The statement continued, “We know … there’s enough people willing to fabricate stories like this in order to impress the media class — a media class who is willing to run with anything, as long as it anti-Trump.”
Earlier this year, Axios reported on excerpts from Haberman’s book detailing the incidents where papers were found clogging a toilet in the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at ijr.com ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11091457/Photographs-Donald-Trumps-toilets-apparently-clogged-torn-paper-emerge.html
In 2013 President Barack Obama signed into law the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (H.R. 5736),
making it legal for government-produced media—such as was broadcast overseas by Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other outlets throughout the Cold War—to be directed toward U.S. citizens themselves. Needless to say, such government-penned narratives spin the news so as to reflect favorably upon the United States. To understand the sheer power of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, it suffices to do a quick Google of the name of this piece of legislation to see how it has generated a logical quandary befitting of Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. For if it is true that the American people are being propagandized by the U.S. government through its control of the major media outlets and tech giants, then any assertion to that effect will be countered—and ultimately defeated—by yet more government propaganda.
The fact that the complete negation of the original Smith-Mundt Act was deceptively labeled the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act marked the first stage in what might be termed the Orwellian turn. Unsurprisingly, a lengthy list of articles calling out the alleged piece of “disinformation” that “Barack Obama legalized government propaganda against citizens” appears at the top of the Google search results.
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Trump Toilet Propaganda Imho.
I bet some intern was hired to plumb the toilets for papers…
My thoughts exactly. This picture is is worthless, and it proves nothing, zilch, zero, nada, which is why I wanted to see it.
They just happen to be placed up in that position... Shouldn’t ink be smeared from water? The toilet on the right doesn’t have a reflection of water in it. And, if someone wanted to flush documents down the toilet, it would likely that person would wait to ensure they were gone. Lastly, we’re supposed to believe someone followed the President into the can to check for documents?
All this means one thing: The Left will believe every word of it.
Should have flushed Pelosi,shiff,shumer, Cheney ,etc
The Presidential Records Act of 1978 differentiates between “personal records” and “Presidential records.”
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-act.html
Specifically, personal records are defined as:
“documentary materials or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, of a purely private or nonpublic character, which do not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President” and which include “diaries, journals, or other personal notes serving as the functional equivalent of a diary or journal which are not prepared or utilized for, or circulated or communicated in the course of, transacting Government business,” “private political associations” and “materials relating exclusively to the President’s own election to the office of the
Presidency” [44 U.S.C. § 2201(3)].
From time to time, problems arise with this and similar distinctions between personal and public records. For example, Secretaries of State that use private email; and, erasing hard drives because they only have cookie recipes and such.
Responses to such incidents are little more than partisan harangue.
Indeed.
Maybe they were short of toilet paper at the White House. Everyone else was at that time.
LOL!!!
Documents WILL NOT FLUSH!!!
Go ahead. Give it a try, if you want a big plumbing bill.
Documents go in the SHREDDER!!!!!!!
How can these people expect us to take them seriously when they publish idiocy like this?
Not that I’m an expert on toilets but doesn’t that toilet look pretty plain jane for the White House? It looks like something you’d pick up off the shelf at Home Depot, not what you’d expect to see in a White House bathroom. Wouldn’t an expensive toilet likely to have chrome or stainless steel hinges and not plastic ones?
They have him now. His 2024 hopes are now in the crapper. They are flush with new scandals.
Zzzz.
Another nothing burger.
I try to laugh out loud when I see this crap. Eases the BP. My husband usually asks, “what’s so funny?”, and I say, “you don’t want to know”.
Easing the BP, but not the determination of WINNING!
TRUMP and DESANTIS!
The documents could have been flushed by anyone so no proof that Trump flushed them.
Why would someone try to get rid of paper in the toilet and then not flush the toilet to make the paper go away? Does Trump not know how toilets work?
This is a joke right?
I mean , yeah ok, I’m an old guy and I can be fooled sometimes as easy as the next person but this is bs,right? C’mon man.
Ever try to flush paper down a toilet?
Copy paper, yellow legal pad paper?
It’d be like trying to flush a sheet of plywood.
Who comes up with this nonsense anyway?
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