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babylonsister

(172,759 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2022, 09:14 AM Aug 2022

Photos Allegedly Show Trump's Handwritten Documents Clogging Up Toilet Bowls

Haberman is all about Haberman, as usual.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-toilet-photos-allegedly-show-his-handwritten-documents-clogging-up-bowls?ref=home

Photos Allegedly Show Trump’s Handwritten Documents Clogging Up Toilet Bowls
MAKING A SPLASH
Dan Ladden-Hall
News Correspondent
Updated Aug. 08, 2022 7:45AM ET /
Published Aug. 08, 2022 7:29AM ET


Pictures have been published that allegedly show Donald Trump’s Sharpie-scrawled notes torn up and dumped into toilets despite the former president’s previous insistence that he was not, in fact, a serial document flusher. Axios published two photos appearing to show handwritten papers at the bottom of toilet bowls—one reportedly from an overseas trip and one from inside the White House. The pictures were obtained by The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, who will elaborate on allegations of Trump’s supposed document-destroying habit in her forthcoming book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. “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 told Axios. “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.” In February, when Trump’s alleged proclivity for flushing papers was first reported, he denied the claim and called Haberman a “maggot.” “You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of paper in a toilet bowl is part of your promotional plan,” Trump’s spokesperson Taylor Budowich told Axios in response to the images’ publication.



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Photos Allegedly Show Trump's Handwritten Documents Clogging Up Toilet Bowls (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2022 OP
Maggie is definitely full of herself. I mute the tv when she starts bloviating. Comfortably_Numb Aug 2022 #1
That makes no sense. grumpyduck Aug 2022 #2
🚽😱 Goonch Aug 2022 #3

grumpyduck

(6,672 posts)
2. That makes no sense.
Mon Aug 8, 2022, 09:31 AM
Aug 2022

Who took the photos, and how convenient that they showed legible script. Also, why would someone take them and hang onto them all this time?

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