Former President Donald Trump's spokesman said Axios had placed two paper images purportedly of Trump's handwriting on the bottom of a commode.
"If the picture of the paper in the toilet bowl is part of the promotional scheme, you have to be pretty desperate to sell the book," Taylor Btwich told the site. It was obtained by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman ahead of her October publication of her book The Confidence Man.
Budwitch later stated, "There are enough people trying to make up stories like this to impress the media class, which is willing to support anything as long as it is anti-Trump." I will," he added.
One photo of him, allegedly taken at the White House, shows a torn note at the bottom of a toilet that says "where."
The second photo, allegedly taken while Trump was traveling abroad, showed a torn piece of paper with the names "Rogers" and "Stefanik" on it. Probably referring to Elise Stefanik, Member of Parliament for the North. (R-NY) – In the restroom.
This year she first reported in Februarythat Trump likes to erase notes, her Haberman said on CNNMonday. supported her report during the appearance.
and so on," she said. "Unless it's a fireplace. And it's about destroying records that are supposed to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act, a creation of the Watergate era."
"Trump. had a habit of tearing paper, and people knew they had to tape it up," Haberman added. …and what was happening was that the White House housing staff found the pipe clogged with paper and believed he had run the water…then Trump actually did this. There were additional reports from people who did and confirmed it happened in at least two people. During his presidency, he traveled abroad and at the White House.
"Again, it matters who knows what this paper is about. Only he would know, and probably whoever was working with it. But , the important point is about records."
The former president promptly condemned the accusations back in February, calling it "another bogus story," "categorically untrue," and that "our nation under the Biden administration Haberman called it "simply invented" to distract Americans from "how horrifying things they are doing".
Since leaving his office, several reports have portrayed Trump as a notorious destroyer of records, classified or not.
CNN On Monday, Trump reportedly instructed aides to carry boxes of unread memoirs, articles, and possible tweets to Air Force One, which he would review and destroy.
One former government official said that after the president left the room to comply with federal records-keeping laws, a deputy in the secretary's office took things out of Trump's trash can or removed things from his desk. I told the outlet.
Trump has also been accused of keeping White House boxes of documents, some of which contained classified material.
The National Archives said he recovered box in January.
This drew the attention of the House Oversight Committee, which immediately launched a investigation into what it called a "major violation" of the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
Federal agents have also reportedly issued a subpoena of documents as part of their own investigation into the matter.
