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Trial Balloon · Ep. 191: Blue Wave Update

Reporter Denies She Sat On Trump Toilet Story

February 11, 2022 · 5:07 pm ET · Leave a Comment

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN that she did not save her report that then-President Donald Trump clogged White House toilets by flushing documents for her forthcoming book.

Said Haberman: “I did not know this was happening while he was president. I’m not known for sitting on scoops if I have information, number one. Number two, I found this out in the course of reporting for the book, well after Trump had left the White House.”

She added that her book doesn’t come out for eight months, and she said she was “trying to get this information out as fast as possible.”

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The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
by Maggie Haberman · Penguin Press · 2022
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