such highly classified information, the two people familiar with the matter said, end quote, and because of this there may be two new investigations on the horizon to look further into donald trump s conduct. the national archives has asked the justice department to investigate how the trump white house handle would its record it is. in addition to that, the house oversight committee said it would launch probe to how those boxes ended up in mar-a-lago without anyone s knowledge for more than a year and then the white house s clogged toilet. according to the book confidence men by pulitzer prize-winning reporter maggie haberman. residence staff periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet and they believe the president had flushed pieces of paper. presidential records, by the way, belong to the public. shortly after the watergate scandal the presidential records act was passed and made that explicit because the president, after all, is a public servant,
this is coming from an upcoming book by new york times reporter maggie haberman. let s listen to what she told cnn this morning. i learned that staff in the white house residence would periodically find the toilet clogged, the engineer would have to come and fix it and what the engineer would find would be wads of clumped up printed paper, you know, meaning it was not toilet paper. this was either notes or some other piece of paper that, you know, they believe that he had thrown down the toilet but certainly does add another dimension to what we know about how he handled material in the white house. and ryan, we know the national archives has asked the doj to investigate. where does that stand? well, at this point the department of justice isn t commenting on whetheror not they ve launched an investigation to the care of these presidential records by the former president donald trump. certainly if there was
axios is reporting that new york times reporter maggie haberman writes in a forth coming book that the white house staff periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet. and believed trump was to blame. while nbc news hasn t independently verified this, it sure seems to shed some light on moments like these. i won t use the example of toilets because it is sort of gross, right? but let s use it anyway. so no water comes out. so people are flushing it seven, eight, ten, 12 times. the end result is it is no good. ten times. not me, of course. not me. people are flushing toilets ten times, 15 times as opposed to once. they end up using more water. it is like the man was telling on himself. and that s just the beginning of trump s record keeping problems. white house records obtained by the january 6th select committee do not include any phone calls during the hours long period
residence were clearly marked as classified, including documents at the top secret level, according to two people familiar with the matter. the existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove which has not been previously reported is going to intensify the legal pressure that trump or his staffers could face and raises new questions as to why the materials were taken out of the white house. the first reports of donald trump ripping up documents appeared in 2018 in politico. this week, there have been more eyewitness accounts quoted in news reports describing donald trump ripping up presidential documents. now comes reporting in the new york times that will appear in a new book revealing, according to axios, quote, while president trump was in office, staff in the white house residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet, and
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