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Photos show handwritten notes that Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down toilet
CNN ^ | August 8, 2022 | Shania Shelton

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: notes; postedseveraltimes; toilet; trump
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To: Bob434

Even if this were true, it’s meaningless. Imagine justifying all this by saying a president threw a couple of scraps of paper in a toilet on a foreign trip years ago?

Anybody even remotely think you prosecute a president over that?


41 posted on 08/09/2022 8:27:48 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: seowulf
So some underling photographed the president’s toilet? Did Trump forget to flush?

He forgot to flush out the swamp, including Wray.

42 posted on 08/09/2022 8:28:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Twotone

They obviously expect Trump to announce that he’s running. They are filled with anger and hatred and absolutely will do anything to stop him. They will lie, cheat, steal and kill to keep him from office.


43 posted on 08/09/2022 8:28:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Damn it! We need Trump! America First! Bring America back! We're being governed by fascists.)
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To: LibsRJerks

They’re like fourth graders on the schoolyard trying to come up with a trick to play on a kid they don’t like.

And Maggie Haberman is one of them.

I just can’t fathom why the remaining Democrats identify themselves with a party this embarrassingly juvenile.


44 posted on 08/09/2022 8:30:03 AM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: 1Old Pro

During


45 posted on 08/09/2022 8:30:45 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Twotone

Why is this an issue. If they were to go into the garbage or a shredder would it be different?


46 posted on 08/09/2022 8:31:54 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Bob434
Breaking: the authorities discover that Trump and his gang of insurrectionists flushed illegal gifts, such as sofas, automobiles, airplanes, suitcases of diamonds, exotic pets, and various stolen street signs etc down the toilet drains to destroy the evidence

Now we know why Trump was trying to bring back normal flow toilets.
47 posted on 08/09/2022 8:32:22 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: LibsRJerks

It’s called gaslighting by using communist tactics, and the more outlandish the claims, the better it works

The Liberal Mainstream Media Is Now Using Communist Tactics...

The American Catholic recently published an article titled, “The Purpose of Politically Correct Lies.”

The brief article explains how communist societies use propaganda to control the population.

Th author Donald McClarey included this quote:

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended

Theodore Dalrymple

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/the-liberal-mainstream-media-is-now-using-communist-tactics-to-push-their-propaganda-and-lies-on-the-american-public/

(Couldn’t find the quote anywhere else in a quick search)


48 posted on 08/09/2022 8:32:28 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: Twotone

So he photographed himself flushing his own notes down the toilet? hookey-dookey... Let’s go with that.


49 posted on 08/09/2022 8:32:57 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Twotone

And those don’t look like “documents” they look like notes. Maybe notes from a meeting or speech. You give a speech and then you go to the bathroom. You rip up the notes and throw them in the toilet and flush. Whats the problem?


50 posted on 08/09/2022 8:33:32 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Williams

Liz Cheney will think that and try to prosecute no doubt


51 posted on 08/09/2022 8:33:35 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: Twotone

So let me get this straight-

Trump tore up hand written notes and tried to flush them because of their illegal content (never mind 1st Amendment protected rights or even executive privilege) and didn’t bother to make sure they actually went down the drain?

Was someone busting in the door to the bathroom when this happened? I guess I can see this if you are trying to flush your weed and the cops are right there... opps, didn’t go down.

spare me. no one is that stupid except a kid in school.


52 posted on 08/09/2022 8:34:32 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: Twotone

We’re these photos given to Maggie by Dick Durbin?


53 posted on 08/09/2022 8:34:41 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel
Oh, and I especially love this line... CNN has previously reported how Trump flouted presidential record-keeping laws and would often tear up documents, drafts and memos after reading them.

That there is what you call "fake news about fake news".

54 posted on 08/09/2022 8:35:23 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Twotone

“Don’t forget to drink your Ovaltine.”


55 posted on 08/09/2022 8:35:26 AM PDT by mykroar (Democrats support both types of allowed thought: Marxist and Leninist.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Lol. He did try to get regular flow,back too. I Forgot about that


56 posted on 08/09/2022 8:36:33 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: Twotone
I believe it because everyone I know rips up evidence, puts it in a toilet, and takes a quick pic before flushing. Then said picture finds it's way to Axios the day before the FIB kicks in his door, using the toilet photo as a predicate for using immediate action.

This nonsense puts the golden shower BS and the Russia!Russia!Russia! coup to shame and I think it will backfire.

57 posted on 08/09/2022 8:37:18 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Twotone

“Made you look!”


58 posted on 08/09/2022 8:37:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bob434

A welcome bit of light relief from this deeply troubling story.


59 posted on 08/09/2022 8:39:00 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: Twotone

Pray for President Trump.


60 posted on 08/09/2022 8:40:04 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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