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Photo shows a handwritten note Trump apparently tore up and tried to flush the toilet

Washington (CNN)Newly released photos reveal former Donald Trump documents Two occasions where the toilet was discarded were revealed.

New York Times reporter and CNN contributor Maggie Haberman has releasednew images in her forthcoming bookThe Confidence Man. I'm here. These images are axios. CNN reportedearlierthat President Trump ignored the president's record-keeping laws, often tearing up documents, drafts and memos after reading them. Did.

He regularly flushed papers down the White House residence's toilet, which was later discovered when a repairman was called to fix a clogged toilet. Trump has denied the allegations, and in a statement filed with Axios on Monday, a spokesman said reports of the practice were fabricated.

This picture shows notes that former President Donald Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down the toilet.
This picture shows notes that former President Donald Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down the toilet.

This photo shows a note that former President Donald Trump apparently ripped up and tried to flush the toilet.

In an image released Monday, it is unclear what the document refers to or who created it, but Trump's black marker handwritten with. Haberman said one is from the White House restroom and his other is from a trip abroad provided by Trump administration sources.

``Who knows what this paper is about? It's about the record," Haberman told CNN's John Berman and Brianna Keillor on "The New Day" Monday morning.

Trump had a pattern of ignoring normal record-keeping procedures. Once, during an in-flight visit to the press of his Air Force One in his cabin, Trump asked if anyone wanted to auction off a copy of the speech he had just delivered on eBay.

In another example, Trump orders aides to carry boxes of unread memos, articles, and drafts of tweets onto the presidential plane for review before shredding.

A former senior Trump administration official said that after Trump leaves the room, deputies in the secretary's office usually come to pick things out of the trash and remove them from Trump's desk. .

A former White House official said that while document preservation was the secretary's primary responsibility, the rest of Trump's senior staff felt a sense of duty to maintain a record of documents that passed through the West Wing.

Trump's shoddy recordkeeping became the subject of a protracted battle earlier this yearbetween him and the National Archivesand the Department of Justice} is investigating this issue} .