Exclusive photos: Trump's telltale toilet

[cbabe]

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Source: Axios.com

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.

Trump denied it and called Haberman, whose New York Times coverage he follows compulsively, a "maggot."

Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time.

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Read more: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/trump-toilet-photos-maggie-haberman

[grumpyduck]

1. For some reason the page didn't open for me.

Does it say which toilet they were from, who took the photos, and whether the writing was compared to his? Also, sharpie ink tends to diffuse in water, so the photos (conveniently showing some writing) must have been taken right after the paper went in.

Sorry, Maggie, bit this old fart is cynical.

[Edit] I saw the photos in an earlier post this morning.

[cbabe]

5. A few more paras

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.

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The handwriting is visibly Trump's, written in the Sharpie ink he favored.

Most of the words are illegible.
But the scrawls include the name of Rep. Elise Stefanik of upstate New York, a Trump defender who's a member of House Republican leadership.

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[msfiddlestix]

7. Who actually took those photos? In all seriouness.

[cbabe]

9. 'Sources'. I suppose it depends if you believe the author since sources aren't revealed in the

article. Try contacting author/publisher directly.

[msfiddlestix]

10. Maggie Habeman is not a trusted source, imo.

I think she's desperate to promote her book... I don't think she's getting quite the pre-publishing suppor her publishers were expecting.

She had to come up with a gimmick, she could get away with it because how are we going to prove those photos are faked?

[PatSeg]

11. And how do you prove what toilets they are?

I have no doubt that Trump DID flush documents, but anyone could set such photos up.

I still think it was hilarious that Trump kept complaining publicly about low flush toilets! "Americans have to flush the toilet 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once." Of course, he was looking very "strongly" into the situation! The most transparent man on the planet. He almost always gives himself away, like a seven year old kid.

[redwitch]

2. Ha! Elise Stefanik in the toilet where she belongs!

I actually can’t believe I clicked on a thread about Trumps toilet!

[BlueIdaho]

3. How do you know Trump is lying?

His lips are moving… His toilet is flushing…

[njhoneybadger]

4. Not believable

[msfiddlestix]

6. I'm with you. Anyone here believes these photo shots were taken are next in line on the bid for

ocean front property in Arizona. not even that psychopath is that stupid.

he's stupid and a braggart of things he ought not to be bragging about, but this is simply not credible.

[msfiddlestix]

8. Simply not Credible.

[cbabe]

12. Tfg also says

Trump at the time called the report a "fake story," issuing a statement calling the claim "categorically untrue and made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book."

https://www.rawstory.com/dump-trump-news/

[msfiddlestix]

13. It's not the report I disbelieve, cuz yeah he would do that, it's the photos

Unless, taken by the housecleanners, I suppose that is possible, that would have been extremely risky for them.

The reports of him flushing documents down the toilet I believe, and I believe is chiefly why he made a big deal about "low flow" toilets.

I also believe Maggie Haberman would do anything to hook in book buyers. She's given him so much in the way of cover ups over the years with the occasional "reveals" exposing Trump to wrong doing just to pacify critics. Now she's trying to cash in and see no harm to herself in pursuing this line of provocative exposure of incriminating evidence of crimes he has committed. .

IF those photos are genuine we'd have to know the source I think.

[IcyPeas]

14. seriously? 🙄

[Omaha Steve]

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