Pictures published by the Axios news portal on Monday, 8, reveal two alleged occasions when the former US president Donald Trump He threw official documents down the toilet.
In the photos, the content of the manuscripts was not clear, but, according to the newspaper, it could have been written in Trump’s black font.
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The images were reportedly provided by a White House source to Maggie Haberman, a New York Times reporter who will be releasing a book this year on the businessman’s government.
According to Haberman, officials at the official US headquarters reported frequently finding packets of paper clogging the toilet and believed that the former head of state was responsible for the practice.
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The reporter said in a post on her personal page on Twitter that one of the two photos of the White House bathroom and the other was taken during the former president’s trip abroad.
NEW IN AXIOS: Trump has denied dumping documents as president, as I learned during the report last year for CONFIDENCE MAN. A source from the Trump White House recently provided photos of Trump’s handwritten paper in two different toilets across it Tweet embed https://t.co/wv6rrupO1n
– Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 8, 2022
The journalist alleged that Trump, already known for his habit of tearing up drafts and memos after reading them, violated the Presidential Records Act, which states that documents created and sent to the White House must be kept.
The former president denied the allegations, and his spokesperson said the Axios report on the alleged “file burning” practice was fabricated.
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In February, Trump had already been targeted by the House Committee Investigating whether it has been violated Presidential Records Act After boxes of White House documents were discovered at his Florida residence, reports emerged that he had destroyed records while in office. The Ministry of Justice is investigating the case.
According to the US National Archives and Records, an independent agency linked to the government, Trump was to take at least fifteen boxes of documents from the White House after he left the presidency.
While records are central to any presidency, in Trump’s case they are even more important because they are at the heart of A Investigating another House committee, which is considering the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, which was intended to prevent President Joe Biden from ratifying the victory and left five dead.
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