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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She’s such a Scoopyhead.
Ack, Hell Is Upon Us...because so many want to maintain our Country's original values and virtues. I'm starting to think every Progressive has a real mental problem.
You lost me at the word “journalist”
(Yeah, I do not believe one iota of this BS.)
I’m sure Trump had access to an NSA-level shredder. Everything is digital now, why stuff paper down the toilet if the toilet is already backed up. Doesn’t pass the smell test.
Brandon doesn’t use a toilet. He prefers his pants.
If he was given documents were there originals and copies?
Even *IF* this story is true in any iteration there are copies and originals.
This story was planted because they fear Trump is going to run in 2024 and it may even be another run against Hillary.
I thought he was saying he was sitting in a litter box.......
yeah I heard her interview yesterday, I just wanted to hear it, just for funzies..she NEVER said it was documents, she claims it might be as simple as post it notes to himself..even she was not sure..in fact, she wanted to move on from the subject, I think once the words came out of her mouth she realized it didnt sound as good as she thought it would be
She calls this a “scoop”? More like a pile of poop!
🙂
“Wads of paper in the toilet?”
Maybe they ran out of toilet paper!
What if the paper turned out to be some Maggie Haberman articles?
Famous put down:
“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house; I have your review before me… in a moment it shall be behind me.”
Max Reger
(1873 – 1916) German composer, conductor, pianist & teacher
Old editor’s joke about writer rejection letters: “I am sitting on the toilet with your manuscript in front of me. In a few minutes, it will be behind me.”
So, let me get this straight….
Trump didn’t want certain information to get out, so he flushed a printed copy of it down the toilet?
Yeah, that would work. /S
QUESTION...
Was the toilet GOLDEN?
Maggot Hasnoman...
Sounds like a job for Nixon’s plumbers.
Of course he put paper down the the toilet. It’s called “toilet paper” and we all are guilty of the same thing. Maggie probably uses a corn cob - old fashioned girl that she is!!!
Oh gee, what a revelation ... (snore.)
Absolutely a toilet bowl shaking national calamity.
Fake journalists aren’t allowed to cover Biden truthfully so they make up crap about the last president who wasn’t a libtard 🤪
I’m sure the anywhere POTUS does any office work there is a receptacle for CLASSIFIED trash. Any papers that POTUS wants nobody else to see can merely be put in there. That trash is shredded; burned, and the ashes mixed with water before they are disposed of. The idea that Trump would do what she describes is assinine. The loony babblings of someone frantic to besmirch Trump’s reputation. IMHO.
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