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This morning's Axios has a follow up article on the stories of several months ago about DonT allegedly and illegally destroying presidential papers by flushing them down the toilet.
Yeah, I know. It sounds icky.
Still, it is a story of more than suspicious and surreptitious behavior. And there are some legs to the story.
As you see in the Axios story.....there are now pictures.
Anyway, here is what Axios published this morning:
(note -- they properly gave a Trump spox a chance to respond. Which one did. She was not supportive. Duh!)
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"Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year? Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president, a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents, was the flusher.
Cover: Penguin Press
Between the lines: The new evidence is a reminder that despite the flood of Trump books, Haberman's is hotly anticipated in Trumpworld.
Haberman's sources report the document dumps happened multiple times at the White House, and on at least two foreign trips.
"Between the lines: The new evidence is a reminder that despite the flood of Trump books, Haberman's is hotly anticipated in Trumpworld."
NOTE: Maggie Halberman of the New York Times is the reporter that DonT has given more one-on-one interviews than any other (well, maybe Hannity has now overtaken her?).
Trump follows Halberman's reportage closely....by all accounts.
Yeah, I know. It sounds icky.
Still, it is a story of more than suspicious and surreptitious behavior. And there are some legs to the story.
As you see in the Axios story.....there are now pictures.
Anyway, here is what Axios published this morning:
(note -- they properly gave a Trump spox a chance to respond. Which one did. She was not supportive. Duh!)
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"Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year? Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president, a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents, was the flusher.
- Why it matters: Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal.
- Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time.
- A Trump White House source tells her the photo on the left shows a commode in the White House.
- The photo on the right is from an overseas trip, according to the source.
- "We know ... there's enough people willing to fabricate stories like this in order to impress the media class — a media class who is willing to run with anything, as long as it anti-Trump."
Between the lines: The new evidence is a reminder that despite the flood of Trump books, Haberman's is hotly anticipated in Trumpworld.
Haberman's sources report the document dumps happened multiple times at the White House, and on at least two foreign trips.
- "That Mr. Trump was discarding documents this way was not widely known within the West Wing, but some aides were aware of the habit, which he engaged in repeatedly," Haberman tells us.
- "It was an extension of Trump's term-long habit of ripping up documents that were supposed to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act."
- The scrawls include the name of Rep. Elise Stefanik of upstate New York, a Trump defender who's a member of House Republican leadership.
"Between the lines: The new evidence is a reminder that despite the flood of Trump books, Haberman's is hotly anticipated in Trumpworld."
NOTE: Maggie Halberman of the New York Times is the reporter that DonT has given more one-on-one interviews than any other (well, maybe Hannity has now overtaken her?).
Trump follows Halberman's reportage closely....by all accounts.
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