Trump Clogged White House Toilets With Shredded Documents

New reports this week have finally given us some insight into why Donald Trump would rant endlessly about toilets not flushing the way they used to. According to New York Times columnist Maggie Haberman, it is because Trump would frequently try to flush shredded documents down the toilet. Haberman says that aides have confirmed that they would find clogged up toilets filled with documents, though Trump denies the claims. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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For many years, Donald Trump would rant and rave about how toilets these days just, you know, can't handle the same kind of punch that they used to. And that people were having to flush the toilet 10, 15 times just to, you know, get everything out. And this week we found out why Donald Trump was to flush the toilet so many times. And unfortunately, that's a weird thing to say here, but unfortunately it's not as gross as you may think. According to New York times, reporter Maggie Haberman in her new book, the reason Donald Trump was struggling so much with flushing. Toilets is be because he would routinely tear up documents and try to flush them down the toilet.

She says that aids have confirmed that during their time in the white house, they would frequently stumble upon toilets that had shreded up printer paper in them. Donald Trump has come out and denied all these accusations against him. Um, so what, what do, what do we do now? Right? Donald Trump was allegedly tearing up his documents that he was required by law to, to save and flushing them down the toilet. All right. So let's add that piece of information to everything we've learned in the last couple weeks, you know, two weeks ago, we learned that Donald Trump liked to tear up documents when he was done and his staff would have to go back, tape them all back together, uh, to preserve them under the presidential records, act, those torn up and taped back together documents have, of course been turned over to the January 6th committee. And that is where we learned that he had destroyed these documents.

But luckily the staff came back and saved them. We assume, by the way, we don't know that they got all the documents because I have to imagine that if there were documents clogging up a toilet, uh, probably kind of hard to, to save those and tape 'em back together. And I wouldn't wanna be the a, that had to reach in there and pull the wa out to see if it could be salvaged. So this week we learned, of course, that Donald Trump had stashed 15, at least boxes of documents. Some that were now learning may have been classified intelligence materials down at Malago. Another clear violation of the presidential records act. And later this week, obviously we learned about the whole toilet thing. All of this is illegal. It may not seem like it, it may seem kind of silly to even describe it as such, but it is illegal.

That's why we have the presidential records act. And you can thank Richard M. Nixon for that came about after his administration. For, as I like to say, very obvious reasons. Every single thing the president of the United States does in terms of documents has to be saved. If he pulls out a little sticky note and he writes steak for dinner tonight, well done on it. That becomes a president that you were legally required by law to preserve again, seems totally stupid, right? But the law is there to protect all documents big and small important and unimportant. And again, as I've said, God knows how many times this week, this law carries real criminal P penalties, including several years in prison for violations and the potential of being barred from ever holding public office. Again, what more does the us department of justice need at this point? I mean, Trump could probably come out and admit that he did all this stuff and the DOJ would still be sitting there in their hands saying, oh, I don't know what to do.

Investigate then prosecute then in prison, there you go. There's your three steps. Those are the things you do. And of course there's lots of things that happen in between, but those are the three main headers that we should be dealing with investigation then prosecution an imprisonment because it doesn't get any more clear or obvious that somebody in the Trump administration was tearing up all of Donald Trump's documents and either throwing them away, stashing them in his private lock boxes or flushing them down the toilet. And I think we, we can all pretty much agree on who that individual that was doing that likely is.