Trump slams ‘fake news’ he clogged his bathroom with documents, insists he willingly gave boxes to the National Archives and asks why Hillary never handed over her 32,000 deleted emails

  • Trump denied claims he would flush papers down his White House toilet  
  • Said it ‘is categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book’ 
  • In her forthcoming book Confidence Man, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claims that staff believed Trump had been flushing pieces of paper 
  • Follows revelations National Archives officials seized 15 boxes of materials and documents from Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago club 
  • Trump says the transfer was done ‘openly and willingly’  
  • House Oversight Committee is now probing the contents of those boxes and whether Trump adhered to the Presidential Records Act
  • Official documents must be handed to the Archives at the end of their tenure
  • Mini Air Force One replica and infamous ‘sharpie’ map among objects found
  • Also included Trump’s ‘love letters’ with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un   
  • Trump had a habit of ripping up official documents, causing his staff to have to tape them together or be turned over to the National Archives in pieces 
  • A weekend report revealed Trump also had documents put in burn bags to be incinerated at the Pentagon rather than preserved Â