FBI raids home, what two handwritten letters Trump tore up and tried to flush down toilet contain

2022-08-09 10:08:25Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
FBI raids home, what two handwritten letters Trump tore up and tried to flush
Donald Trump

Shortly after the news broke of the FBI raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound on the coast of Florida, where classified materials of the US Presidency are being sought, New York Times reporter and CNN contributor Maggie Haberman has revealed some images that burden the positions of the former President.

Haberman is revealing the new images in her upcoming book, "Man of Faith," and they were previously posted by Axios, revealing two instances in which Trump apparently flushed confidential handwritten documents down the toilet. to disappear from the sight of others around him.

Meanwhile, CNN has previously reported how Trump violated presidential records retention laws and often tore up documents, drafts and memos after reading them.

He periodically flushed papers down the toilet in the White House residence, papers which were later discovered when technicians were called to repair clogged toilets.

Trump has always denied the allegations, and in a statement to Axios on Monday, a spokesman for him claimed that the report about the practice was fabricated.

In the images released Monday, it's unclear who or what the documents refer to, but they appear to be written in Trump's handwriting in black pen.

Haberman said one image is from a White House restroom and the other is from an overseas trip that she obtained from a White House source at the time she was in charge of Trump.

"Who knows what those letters contained? Only he would know, and apparently anyone who dealt with him, but the important point is the data," Haberman told CNN.

She further found that Trump had a pattern of disregarding normal data retention procedures. At one point, Trump asked if anyone wanted to auction off a copy of a speech he had just given in the Air Force One press cabin on eBay.

At other times, Trump would task aides with carrying boxes of unread memos, articles and draft Tweets aboard the presidential jet for him to review and then shred.

One former White House official recalled that while document preservation was a primary responsibility of the staff secretary, the rest of Trump's senior staff lacked a sense of their own obligation to keep track of documents moving through the West Wing. .

 


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