He periodically flushed toilet paper in the White House residence — only to be discovered later when repairmen were called in to fix the clogged toilets. Trump has denied the allegations, and in a statement provided to Axios on Monday, a spokesman claimed that reports of the practice were fabricated. In the images released Monday, it’s unclear what the documents refer to — and who wrote them — but they appear to be written in Trump’s hand in black marker. Haberman said one image is from a White House restroom and the other is from a trip abroad given to her by a Trump White House source. “Who knows what that paper was? Only he would know and probably whoever was involved with it, but the important thing is the records,” Haberman told CNN’s John Berman and Brianna Keilar on Monday morning’s “New Day” . Trump has had a pattern of overlooking normal record-keeping procedures. At one point, Trump asked if anyone wanted to put a copy of a speech he had just delivered up for auction on eBay during a mid-flight visit to the Air Force One cabin. On other occasions, Trump has assigned aides to carry boxes of unread memos, articles and draft tweets onto the presidential jet to examine and then tear into pieces. A former senior Trump administration official said a deputy from the Staff Office would usually come to take things out of the trash and out of Trump’s office after he left a room. A former White House official recalled that while document preservation was a key responsibility of the staff secretary, the rest of Trump’s senior staff felt no obligation to keep records of documents that passed through the West Wing. Trump’s haphazard record-keeping was the subject of a long-running dispute earlier this year between him and the National Archives, and the Justice Department is investigating the matter.
