With the White House under new management, the toilets work again.
They didn’t for a while. “White House staffers regularly found printed paper clogging a toilet in the president’s residence, leading them to conclude that Trump had flushed pieces of paper down the toilet,” The Hill reported on Thursday, February 10, 2022 (read story here).
The allegation appears in a book by Maggie Halberman, a New York Times reporter, who got the information from White House staffers.
Trump also “is known to have ripped up documents frequently, leading to staffers to tape them back together before they were sent to the National Archives and Records Administration, as is required by the Presidential Records Act,” The Hill said.
In addition, former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman claims she saw Trump eating notes after meeting with Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer and fixer (see that story here).
You may think clogging the toilet ranks among the least of his offenses against the Republic.
But if he was flushing sensitive documents into the sewer, that was against the law, and who knows what hands they could’ve fallen into.
Photo: Foreign spy at work on Pennsylvania Avenue down the street from the White House