自信的川普Confidence Man

 摘要

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

周四上午，《纽约时报》白宫记者玛吉-哈伯曼在CNN上谈到她即将出版的《自信的人》一书时，围绕前总统明显的冲洗工作出现了一些细节。唐纳德-特朗普的形成和美国的破灭》一书。

白宫官邸的工作人员会定期发现马桶堵塞，"哈伯曼说，他也是CNN的政治分析家。"工程师将不得不来修理它，而工程师将发现的是一叠，你知道的，结成团的湿的印刷纸，这意味着它不是卫生纸。这要么是笔记，要么是他们认为他扔进马桶的其他纸片。

哈伯曼补充说，谁都能猜到这些纸是什么，"但

但正如你所说，这无疑为我们所了解的情况增加了另一个层面。

他在白宫处理材料的情况"。

2018年，时任Politico记者Annie Karni爆料称，白宫工作人员将特朗普撕掉的文件录在一起，以备存档之用。

"在撕毁文件方面，他一生都是这样处理的，但这是不同的事情，'哈伯曼说。'而且，正如我被告知的那样，这不是一个孤立的事件。

周四上午，特朗普对哈伯曼进行了反击，他在任时曾痴迷地关注过哈伯曼的报道。特朗普说："另一个假故事，说我把文件和资料冲进了白宫的厕所，这绝对不是事实，只是一个记者为了给一本主要是虚构的书做宣传而编造的。新的记录指控是在国家档案和记录管理局(NARA)官员透露他们从特朗普的Mar-a-Lago住所找到15箱文件后三天浮出水面的，这些文件本应在他离开白宫时提供给该机构。

周三，档案馆要求司法部调查特朗普对这些记录的处理，据报道，联邦执法官员讨论了是否应该对他进行可能的犯罪调查。

众议院监督和改革委员会也对特朗普拿走档案馆官员上个月收回的15箱文件展开了调查。

委员会主席卡罗琳-马洛尼（Carolyn Maloney）周四表示，这些记录在特朗普政府结束时没有及时提供给国家档案局，而且它们似乎被从白宫移走，违反了《总统记录法》（PRA），我对此深表关切。

'我还对最近的报道感到担忧，特朗普总统在任时多次试图销毁总统记录，这可能构成对《总统记录法》的额外严重违反。

但特朗普坚持认为，他与档案馆合作，将这些箱子转回给该机构。

特朗普说：'经过合作和尊重的讨论，国家档案和记录管理局（NARA）公开和自愿地与特朗普总统安排运输装有信件、记录、报纸、杂志和各种文章的箱子。

'这些资料中的一部分有朝一日将在唐纳德-J-特朗普总统图书馆展出，供公众查看我的政府为美国人民取得的不可思议的成就。

纽约时报》记者玛吉-哈伯曼在她即将出版的《自信的人。The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America》中称，前总统唐纳德-特朗普可能通过将文件冲入白宫官邸的马桶来处理这些文件。"我了解到，白宫官邸的工作人员会定期发现马桶堵塞，工程师将不得不来修理它。工程师一般会发现一叠，你知道的，湿的，打印的纸，意思是这不是卫生纸，这是笔记或其他一些纸，他们认为他把这些纸扔进了马桶，"哈伯曼在周四早上参加CNN节目时说。

"这可能是什么，布里安娜，可能是任何人都能猜到的。这可能是便利贴，可能是他写给自己的笔记，也可能是其他东西，"哈伯曼补充说。"正如你所说的，这当然为我们了解他在白宫如何处理材料增加了另一个层面。"

特朗普很快拒绝了这些指控。"这位前总统在一份声明中说："另一个假故事，说我把文件和资料冲进了白宫的厕所，这绝对不是事实，只是一个记者为了给一本主要是虚构的书做宣传而编造的。"民主党人只是利用这一点和由政治黑客组成的非选择委员会作为伪装，掩盖我们的国家在拜登政府的领导下做得多么可怕。"

特朗普被指控对与他的公务有关的总统记录处理不当，可能违反了《总统记录法》。哈伯曼的报道是在1月6日委员会继续调查国会大厦骚乱，强制要求证人提供证词和材料，以确定他们参与威胁2020年选举结果认证的程度。哈伯曼因在过去七年中对特朗普的报道而声名鹊起，她说她没有 "工程师 "必须疏通厕所系统的确切数字，但她说这种情况 "定期发生"。她说，堵塞的纸张是在可能来自特朗普个人白宫浴室的管道中发现的。报告还说，她不知道他的动机可能是什么。

"工程师会发现的是一包包结成团的湿打印纸，这意味着它不是卫生纸。这要么是纸条，要么是某种他们认为被他扔进马桶的纸。哈伯曼说，她是在为她的新书《自信的人》做报道时发现的，这可能是--这可能是任何人的猜测。据报道，该书讲述了特朗普的生活，从他早年在纽约的生活到他在白宫的生活以及在佛罗里达州担任总统后的生活。

特朗普在白宫的日子里，他的记录保存受到了审查。据Politico报道，众所周知，他有顽固的撕纸习惯，这迫使工作人员跟随他的纸张痕迹，将关键文件拼凑起来，以遵守1978年的《总统记录法》。国家档案和记录管理局在1月中旬从特朗普那里收回了大约15箱文件，据说要求司法部调查特朗普对白宫记录的处理。

据《华盛顿邮报》报道，特朗普在白宫任职后短暂保留的一些文件包括朝鲜领导人金正恩和前总统巴拉克-奥巴马的信件。他的顾问告诉该媒体，保留这些纪念品并非出于邪恶的原因，该媒体指出，前总统比尔-克林顿在离开白宫后不得不向NARA归还物品。在周一发表的一份声明中，特朗普批评了媒体对他与NARA关系的描述。"媒体对我与NARA关系的描述是假新闻。它恰恰相反！"。他在一份声明中说："与NARA合作，帮助正式保存特朗普的遗产，这是一个巨大的荣誉。"这些文件是在非常友好的基础上轻松和没有冲突地提供的，这与假新闻媒体所拟定的说法不同。事实上，这被看作是例行公事，'没什么大不了的'。

实际上，我被告知，根据多年来的各种法律裁决，我没有义务提供这些材料。"

SUMMARY

Details around the ex-president's apparent flushing job emerged on Thursday morning as New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman spoke on CNN about her forthcoming book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

'Staff in the White House residence would periodically find the toilet clogged,' said Haberman, who is also a political analyst for CNN. "The engineer would have to come and fix it and what the engineer would find would be wads of, you know, clumped up wet, printed paper, meaning it was not toilet paper. This was either notes or some other piece of paper that they believe that he had thrown down the toilet.

Haberman added that it could be anybody's guess what the papers were, 'but it certainly adds, as you said, another dimension to what we know about how he handled material in the White House'.

In 2018, then-Politico reporter Annie Karni broke the story that White House staff taped together documents that Trump had ripped up, for archival purposes.

"This is how he handled documents all his life in terms of ripping them up but this is something different,' Haberman said. 'And it was not, as I was told, an isolated incident.'

On Thursday morning, Trump hit back at Haberman, whose reporting he followed obsessively while in office. 'Another fake story, that I flushed papers and documents down a White House toilet, is categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book, Trump stated. The new records accusations surfaced three days after National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) officials revealed that they recovered 15 boxes of documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, that should have been provided to the agency when he left the White House.

On Wednesday, the Archives requested that the Justice Department look into Trump's handling of the records, and federal law enforcement officials reportedly discussed whether they should investigate him for a possible crime.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has also launched a probe into Trump taking the 15 boxes of documents that Archives officials retrieved last month.

'I am deeply concerned that these records were not provided to NARA promptly at the end of the Trump Administration and that they appear to have been removed from the White House in violation of the Presidential Records Act (PRA), the committee's chairwoman Carolyn Maloney stated on Thursday.

'I am also concerned by recent reports that while in office, President Trump repeatedly attempted to destroy presidential records, which could constitute additional serious violations of the PRA.'

But Trump insisted that he worked with the Archives to transfer the boxes back to the agency.

'Following collaborative and respectful discussions, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) openly and willingly arranged with President Trump for the transport of boxes that contained letters, records, newspapers, magazines, and various articles,' Trump stated.

'Some of this information will someday be displayed in the Donald J Trump Presidential Library for the public to view my Administration's incredible accomplishments for the American People.'

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman alleges in her upcoming book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America," that former president Donald Trump may have disposed of documents by flushing them down the toilet in the White House residence. "I learned that staff in the White House residence would periodically find the toilet clogged, the engineer would have to come and fix it. And what the engineer would generally find would be wads of, you know, wet, printed paper, meaning it was not toilet paper, this was either notes or some other piece of paper that they believed he had thrown down the toilet," Haberman said during an appearance on CNN on Thursday morning.

"What it could be, Brianna, could be anybody's guess. It could be post-its, it could be notes he wrote to himself, it could be other things," Haberman added. "It certainly does add, as you said, another dimension to what we know about how he handled material in the White House."

Trump quickly rejected the accusations. "Another fake story, that I flushed papers and documents down a White House toilet, is categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book," said the former president in a statement. "The Democrats are just using this and the Unselect Committee of political hacks as a camouflage for how horribly our Country is doing under the Biden Administration."

Trump has been accused of mishandling presidential records relating to his official duties, potentially in violation of the Presidential Records Act. Haberman's reporting comes as the January 6 committee continues investigation into the Capitol Riot, compelling testimony and materials from witnesses to determine the extent of their involvement in threatening the certification of the 2020 election results. Haberman, who gained prominence for her coverage of Trump over the last seven years, said she did not have an exact number of how often an "engineer" would have to unclog the toilet system but said it happened "periodically." She said the clogged papers were found in pipes likely from Trump's personal White House bathroom. The report also said she did not know what his motivation might have been.

"What the engineer would find would be wads of clumped up wet printed paper, meaning it was not toilet paper. It was either notes or some kind of paper that they believe he had thrown down the toilet. What it could be - it could be anyone's guess Haberman said she made the discovery while reporting for her new book,Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, set to be published Oct. 4. The book reportedly follows Trump's life from his early years in New York to his time in the White House and post presidency in Florida.

Trump has come under scrutiny for his record-keeping during his days in the White House. He was known to have stubborn paper-ripping habits that forced staff to follow his paper trail and piece key documents back together to comply with the Presidential Records Act of 1978, according to Politico. The National Archives and Records Administration recovered about 15 boxes of documents from Trump in mid January and reportedly asked the Justice Department to look into Trump's handling of White House records.

Some of the documents Trump briefly kept following his tenure in the White House included letters from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and former President Barack Obama, the Washington Post reported. His advisers told the outlet the mementos were not kept for nefarious reasons, and the outlet noted former President Bill Clinton had to return items to NARA following his White House exit. In a statement published Monday, Trump criticized the media's characterization of his relationship with NARA. "The media's characterization of my relationship with NARA is Fake News. It was exactly the opposite! It was a great honor to work with NARA to help formally preserve the Trump Legacy," he said in a statement. "The papers were given easily and without conflict and on a very friendly basis, which is different from the accounts being drawn up by the Fake News Media. In fact, it was viewed as routine and 'no big deal.'

In actuality, I have been told I was under no obligation to give this material based on various legal rulings that have been made over the years."