American Journalist Maggie Haberman has claimed that former US President Donald Trump would flush vital paperwork down the bathroom throughout his stint on the White House. CNN on Monday printed pictures that confirmed two paperwork, allegedly in Trump’s handwriting, that have been flushed down the bathroom.
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The CNN report talked about that Trump “periodically flushed papers down the toilet in the White House residence”. It mentioned that the paperwork would later be found by repairmen known as in to repair the “clogged toilets”.
Donald Trump has, nevertheless, denied the allegations and known as the allegations “fabricated”.
Haberman claimed that the contents of the paperwork couldn’t be verified. “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 advised CNN.
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Earlier in February, Haberman had mentioned: “I learned that staff in the White House residence would periodically find the toilet clogged, the engineer would have to come and fix it and what the engineer would find would be wads of, you know, clumped up, wet, printed paper, meaning it was not toilet paper, this was either notes or some other piece of paper that they believed he had thrown down the toilet.”
Around the identical time, Trump aide-turned-enemy Omarosa Manigault Newman additionally mentioned that Trump would repeatedly tear up White House paperwork. “His behavior of tearing these items up … my coronary heart really goes out to the folks answerable for going within the trash bins [and] recovering these items. But there are specific issues that I’m certain can’t be accounted for as a result of Donald Trump turned very very conscious that loads of these delicate paperwork would in some unspecified time in the future be made public,” Newman had mentioned in an interview.
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The report additional known as out Trump for his “disregard for record preservation procedures”. It additional alleged that Trump would have his aides tear up sure paperwork onboard the Presidential plane — Air Force One.
It additionally quoted White House sources who mentioned {that a} employees secretary official would usually pull papers out of the trash and take them off Trump’s desk.
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