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Axios.com reported Monday that photos exist of ripped-up notes allegedly found in a White House toilet that staff believed were disposed of by then-President Donald Trump.The photos, if authenticated, would help to corroborate earlier claims that Trump disposed of White House documents in unconventional ways, raising questions about whether he violated federal laws on the preservation of government documents.SCOOP: Maggie Haberman’s new book about former President Trump will report that White House staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president was the flusher.Well, it turns out there are photos. https://t.co/GJyxxtOjH9— Axios (@axios) August...

SAF CALLS FOR ‘WAITING PERIODS’ ON PRESS FOLLOWING FATAL NEWSWEEK DEBACLE For Immediate Release: 5/16/2005 BELLEVUE, WA – More than 115 dead or injured, and now a lame “apology” from Newsweek; maybe it is time for the press to accept waiting periods before exercising its First Amendment rights in the same way the press has backed waiting periods on law-abiding Americans before exercising their Second Amendment rights. That’s the observation from the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) now that Newsweek has acknowledged its report about the desecration of the Koran by soldiers at Guantanamo Bay was bogus. “I wonder if Newsweek,...

NewsWeek Flushes the “Quran in Toilet” Story Despite Retraction, Criminal Liability Cannot be Ruled Out By E.F. Winslow Posted 5-17-2005 After several “Sorry-for-the-outcome-but-we-are-sticking-to-the-story” quasi-apologies, Newsweek has finally made a formal retraction, saying that it “erred” in the May 9 report that claimed Guantanamo Bay interrogators had desecrated the Quran by flushing one down the toilet. In the upcoming May 23 issue, an article from the editor Mark Whitaker leads with an incredulous statement that demonstrates that his staff is very close to understanding that there can be ramifications to writing inflammatory articles. He queried: “Did a report in Newsweek set...

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