“You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of toilet paper are part of your advertising plan,” Taylor Budowitz told the site, which posted the images after they were obtained by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. , before the October publication of her book “Man of Trust”. Budowich then added that “there are enough people willing to fabricate stories like this to impress the media class — a media class that is willing to run with anything as long as it’s anti-Trump.” One photo, purportedly taken at the White House, shows a torn note with the word “where” written on the bottom of a toilet. The second photo, which was reportedly taken while Trump was on a foreign trip, featured a torn piece of paper bearing the names “Rogers” and “Stefanik” — possibly referring to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) — in the toilet. Haberman, who first reported that Trump liked to flush his notes in February of this year, stood by her report during an appearance on CNN on Monday. The newspaper reportedly bears the handwriting of former President Donald Trump.Maggie Haberman via Axios “People will make all kinds of jokes about toilets and so on,” he said. “It would still be history if it was a fireplace. And the issue is the destruction of records that are supposed to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act, which is a creation of the Watergate era.” “We knew that Trump had a habit of tearing up paper and people having to tape it back up,” Haberman added. … And what was happening was that the staff at the White House residence found that the pipes were clogged with paper that they thought had been flushed out … I had additional reports afterwards from people confirming that Trump had indeed done this and that it happened in at least two trips abroad and to the White House during his presidency.” “Again, it’s important because who knows what that paper was. Only he would know and presumably anyone involved in it. But the important point is the records.” Since leaving office, several reports have portrayed former President Donald Trump as a notorious file destroyer. Maggie Haberman via Axios The former president quickly shot down the allegation in February, calling it “another fake story,” “categorically untrue” and “simply made up” by Haberman to distract Americans from “how horrible our country is doing under Govt. Biden.” Since leaving office, several reports have painted Trump as a notorious file-destroyer — sensitive or not. CNN reported Monday that Trump will instruct aides to carry boxes of unread memoirs, articles and possible tweets onto Air Force One, which he will then examine and shred. A former senior administration official told the agency that a deputy from the Office of the Secretary of Personnel would take things out of Trump’s trash or remove items from his desk after the president left the room to comply with federal records retention laws. . Trump has also been accused of keeping boxes of White House documents – some of which contained classified material – at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The National Archives retrieved the boxes in January. That caught the attention of the House Oversight Committee, which quickly launched an investigation into what it called “potentially serious violations” of the 1978 Presidential Records Act. Federal investigators have reportedly issued a subpoena for the documents as part of their own investigation into the matter.
