Donald Trump would typically try to flush paperwork down the bathroom, a soon-to-be-published guide from New York Instances reporter Maggie Haberman has claimed.
Workers on the White Home would periodically uncover a rest room within the residence clogged with printed paper, the guide claims.
Haberman additionally wrote the president would additionally flush paperwork on international journeys.
The weird claims come as a congressional committee investigating Mr Trump have confronted quite a few obstacles in accessing paperwork from the earlier administration.
Presidents are legally required to protect all written communications throughout their time in workplace.
However when the committee investigating the January 6 riots requested paperwork, some arrived torn up and taped again collectively.
Different information, together with all of the cellphone calls Mr Trump made the day of the riot, haven't been launched.
Fifteen containers of paperwork needed to be retrieved for the Nationwide Archives and Information Administration (NARA) from Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago nation membership in Florida.
Among the many information stored at Mar-a-Lago had been correspondence with Kim Jong-un, and a map Mr Trump had altered himself to distort the trail of Hurricane Dorian.
In a press release, Mr Trump disputed the "media's characterisation of my relationship with NARA" as pretend information.
"The papers got simply and with out battle and on a really pleasant foundation, which is completely different from the accounts being drawn up by the Pretend Information Media," he stated.
"In reality, it was seen as routine and 'no huge deal'."
Mr Trump additionally denied the bathroom flushing claims.
"Additionally, one other pretend story, that I flushed papers and paperwork down a White Home bathroom, is categorically unfaithful and easily made up by a reporter," he stated.
"The Democrats are simply utilizing this and the Unselect Committee of political hacks as a camoflauge (sic) for a way horribly our Nation is doing below the Biden Administration."
Talking on The View, former Trump Communications Director Alyssa Farah stated there may be "fairly a bit extra to come back" from Haberman's guide.
"I nonetheless discuss to some of us in Trumpworld, those who haven't engaged in criminality," she stated.
"The previous president is frightened of Maggie Haberman's guide."
She added that she noticed Mr Trump tearing up paperwork throughout his time within the White Home.
Home Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney was scathing in her criticism of Mr Trump.
She tweeted that the previous president's conduct concerned "potential violations of felony regulation".
"Eradicating or concealing authorities information is a felony offense punishable by as much as three years in jail," she stated.
"Former President Trump and his senior advisors have to be held accountable for any violations of the regulation."
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Mr Trump's purported behaviour within the White Home flies within the face of his public statements about Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Mr Trump ceaselessly led chants of "lock her up" after revelations Ms Clinton used a personal electronic mail server as secretary of state.
Responding to information of Mr Trump's purported propensity for doc destruction, Ms Clinton had a droll response on Twitter.