Posted on 08/09/2022 8:16:29 AM PDT by Twotone
Newly revealed photographs reveal two occasions on which former President Donald Trump apparently flushed documents down the toilet.
Maggie Haberman...is publishing the new images in her forthcoming book, "Confidence Man," and the images were earlier posted by Axios. CNN has previously reported how Trump flouted presidential record-keeping laws and would often tear up documents, drafts and memos after reading them.
He periodically flushed papers down the toilet in the White House residence -- only to be discovered later on when repairmen were summoned to fix the clogged toilets. Trump has denied the allegations, and in a statement given to Axios on Monday, a spokesman claimed that reporting about the practice was fabricated. This picture shows notes that former President Donald Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down the toilet.
This picture shows notes that former President Donald Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down the toilet.
In the images revealed on Monday, it's unclear what the documents are in reference to -- and who authored them -- but they appear to be written in Trump's handwriting in black marker. Haberman said one image is from a White House toilet and the other one is from an overseas trip that was provided to her by a Trump White House source. "Who knows what this paper was? Only he would know and presumably whoever was dealing with it, but the important point is about the records," Haberman told CNN's John Berman and Brianna Keilar on "New Day" Monday morning. Trump had a pattern of disregarding normal record preservation procedures. In one occasion, Trump asked if anyone wanted to put a copy of a speech he just delivered up for auction on eBay, during a mid-flight visit to the press cabin Air Force One.
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This sounds like the typical outlandish stories that the Democrats routinely concoct to generate their narratives. Something that can generate miles of back and forth discussion, crazy headlines and talk show banter without accomplishing nearly anything.
It’s what they do. And it’s laughable.
Y3ah because smart people trying to “hide their tracks” always throw stuff in the toilet where it can be retrieved and viewed instead of using shredders and then burning the evidence
Have they found out what classified info hillary had on her computer before she bleach-bitted it clean?
I hear he tried to choke his secret service agent and then flush him down the toilet all while driving the Beast with one hand tied behind his back...
Yep this ridiculous story was used to justify the raid.
Pictures of like a 2 inch square with one word written on it.
All timed with the NYT.
I thought CNN was flushed down the toilet.
They're desperately digging really deep, aren't they?
milk
bread
eggs
ice cream
only to be discovered later on when repairmen were summoned to fix the clogged toilets.
A guy who has been in construction flushing paper down a toilet.
And then not learning from it after several times.
These liars stop at NOTHING.
Plastic hinges too!
As fake as Barry Sotero’s “birth certificate.”
CNN, apparently you’re FOS...
I hope Trump shows these idiotic nothing photos at a rally and bellows “This nonsense is what they raided a former president’s house over! “
Sounds like a scene from “Goodfellas”
Yes, it was one of those small portable toilets in the car for emergencies.
Toilet diving now?
These photos are ludicrous. All you see is some “documents” in a toilet. Instead of photographing the documents if you thought they were something of value wouldn’t you try to retrieve them? If one was bent on disposing something by flushing it in the toilet wouldn’t you make sure they actually went down the toilet? If this is supposedly Trump’s toilet somewhere in the White House then are we to believe that just anyone has access the the president’s toilet? These photos scream fake.
Did Trump forget to flush?
Oh, that's right: inserting opinion into a "news" story is OK with the Left (if it's against anyone on the Right)...
Thanks.
Now I am constipated for a month.
Reporting such as this would have never been allowed to see print in my Junior High School 7th grade honors journalism class. Today, 45 years later, CNN freely allows hack jobs like Shania Shelton to further destroy the discipline.
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