Toiletgate: Photos Show Papers Flushed By Trump

Axios reports:

Maggie Haberman’s forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president, a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents, was the flusher.

Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal. Trump denied it and called Haberman, whose New York Times coverage he follows compulsively, a “maggot.” Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time.

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Trump’s spox claims the photos are fake.

?FIRST on @axios: Trump’s telltale toilet … ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ obtained these photos ahead of the Oct. 4 publication of her book “Confidence Man”

Source tells her pic on the left shows a White House commode
Pic on the right is from a Trump overseas trip https://t.co/6opWty4kjd

— Mike Allen (@mikeallen) August 8, 2022