An allegation that former President Donald Trump tore up official White House papers and flushed them down the toilet comes amid a request from the Office of the National Archives to the Department of Justice to investigate sending documents and various products to the Mar-a-Lago resort.
In her next book “Confidence Man”, the New York Times reporter, Maggie Haberman, affirms that the White House staff found wads of printed paper clogging a toilet and believed Trump to be the culprit.
“While I was reporting on this book, I learned that White House staff White House residence periodically found the toilet clogged,” according to a report by Axios. “ and what the engineer would find would be wads of printed paper damp and piled up, which means it was not toilet paper.”
As soon as the report, which was taken up by other media, such as CNN, came out, former President Trump accused that it was another “fake news”. ”.
“Another false story [esa de] that I flushed papers and documents down a White House toilet, is categorically false and simply made up by a reporter to get publicity for a book in its mostly fictitious,” Trump said in a statement Thursday. of former President Trump, according to The Washington Post.
It is added that the former president and his team took several boxes to Florida without having to do so, because they are documents and official material.
The Post report indicates that those responsible for the custody of Archivos Nationals have argued with prosecutors about determining whether Trump committed a crime by failing to turn over the records correctly.