Posted on 02/11/2022 11:47:57 AM PST by yesthatjallen
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman is pushing back against claims her latest scoop about former President Donald Trump was saved for an upcoming book.
Earlier this week, Axios revealed that Haberman in her forthcoming book about Trump titled Confidence Man reveals that while he was in office, White House staffers "periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper." The report quickly gained widespread attention, but it also sparked claims that Haberman sat on the piece of information for inclusion in the book rather than report it at the time. Activist and author Amy Siskind, for example, accused Haberman of "knowing Trump was *actually* destroying information" and "hiding that story before he ran for re-election" in order to "[profit] off a book deal."
On CNN's Inside Politics, Haberman addressed these claims, saying she only learned the details while doing additional reporting for her book after Trump left office.
"I did not know this was happening while he was president," she said. "I'm not known for sitting on scoops if I have information, number one. Number two, I found this out in the course of reporting for the book, well after Trump had left the White House."
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Wads of paper in the toilet? Show me the evidence. This is a bunch of crap.
Huge grass roots protests all over the world and this is what our media talk about.
Maggie Haberman denies saving Trump toilet story for book: ‘I’m not known for sitting on scoops’
No you are known for lying through your teeth and pushing propaganda like a pimp pushes whores on a Saturday night
Yup. Everybody has a cell phone with a camera by now. Shouldn't be hard to produce a pic if true.
So, she saw Donald Trump tearing office paper and throwing it into the toilet? We would need video, or it’s gossip.
A thinking adult knows that office paper doesn’t flush well. And even if a person took the time to do it, the pace at which one could dispose of office paper in a toilet would be super slow.
Sitting on a scoop, or shoveling a pile of poop?
Remember the Russian poop, Maggie?
5.56mm
For funzies I watched her interview yesterday on CNN, from the way she spoke even she didnt believe the BS..she even said it was not documents, more like “Post it notes” “Written notes to himself” seriously..uh, that is why shredders are made people, no believes it, heck even she doesn’t believe it..she wanted to move on, said “She cant speculate” its total nonsense, even if Biden were accused of this I wouldnt believe it
Have you noticed the fabrications Dems come up with seem to entail bodily fluids, toilets, and kinky sex?
Flushing documents down a toilet? I’ll take Stuff that didn’t happen for $100 Alex...
Gotta go with the only tools with which they are familiar.
These people are absolutely pathetic.
Maggie Habermann is a well known Dem operative at the NYTimes, I mean well known. She herself admitted she was Hillary’s go-to “journalist” during her campaign.
Probably yahoo news flushed down the toilet.
Left wing RAG !!!
Yeah, I do not believe one iota of this BS.
Maybe it WAS a post-it note. President Trump dropped it in maybe by accident, or maybe it was wadded up. So what? These are the same people who couldn’t have cared less when Hillary was breaking up phones with a hammer or wiping clean computer discs. Now we are to get the vapors from this insignificant non-story??!!
Insane. The Oval and Connecting office both have shredders. She’s trying to accuse Trump of dumping government documents into a personal toilet? My gawd, these hate Trump people have lost their friggin minds.
Like he wouldn’t have a paper shredder, or one of those doc burners, if he actually cared to get rid of something highly sensitive?
This is beyond idiot-fodder. This is an actual ‘idiot-detector’ test.
So she escorted President Trump to the toilet? Gee....I don’t know why...but I doubt it.
How come we didn’t know about plungergate while Trump was pres? A- because it hadn’t happened yet. Something was needed to spice up the book and launch it. This is what they do. They stir up some controversy to get publicity to launch their books. Happens all the time. And a brain dead public falls for it every time.
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