Journalist Maggie Haberman will soon be publishing a book about Donald Trump’s tenure as US President. But the first explosive details are already coming to light.
Washington – The toilet in the White House was regularly clogged when Donald Trump* was US President. At least that’s what a journalist who has accompanied the 75-year-old for years reports. She also has a reason for the pipe blockages: Trump is said to have regularly made files and documents disappear in the toilet. It’s not the first time the Republican has faced allegations about his handling of documents.
In the White House, the toilet was regularly clogged with written paper, said Maggie Haberman of the New York Times the transmitter CNN on Thursday (February 10). Haberman has been reporting on Trump for years – her book about the 75-year-old and his years in office is due to be published in October. You can only speculate what the paper was about, Haberman said. “It was in the pipes. And that was (…) his bathroom.” According to Haberman, it was not an isolated case. Trump denied the allegation.
Did Donald Trump let important documents disappear down the toilet? “categorically untrue”
That he flushed documents down the toilet was “categorically untrue,” said a statement from the ex-president*. The reporter made up the story to promote her “largely fictional book.” Allegations had previously been raised that Trump routinely tore up documents during his time in the White House. This was reported by several US media, citing former officials.
Even after his tenure, Trump is said to have taken several boxes of files to his property in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. According to media reports, these included letters from North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un and a letter from Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama.
According to the committee of inquiry into the Capitol attack*, some documents from the White House were glued back together, the wrote Washington Post recently. The National Archives and Records Administration seized the documents last month, the newspaper said.
Trump’s handling of documents: National administration intervenes
Trump confirmed that he had recently handed over several documents to the National Archives and Records Administration. “The papers were handed over without any problems, without any conflict and on a very friendly basis,” said Trump. The whole thing was “routine” and “no big deal”. In the US, correspondence from the President must be archived and kept for posterity.
Despite repeated references, Trump never seems to have changed his document behavior. “First we were a White House that didn’t know how to store things, and then in the end it didn’t matter,” former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told the broadcaster CNN. She described how Trump once sat on the plane with her, tore up documents and then left them on the floor. (dpa) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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