Onetime White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah addressed claims that former President Donald Trump flushed documents down the toilet on Thursday’s episode of The View.
Host Joy Behar began the segment with a question for Farah.
“Now, Alyssa, you worked in Trump’s White House,” Behar said. “Have you ever seen his bathroom, No. 1? Did you see him flush anything down that toilet?”
“Thank heavens, I never saw his bathroom. I did not see him flush anything,” Farah responded between giggles.
“There had been some previous reporting, though, about him tearing up documents, and then, the staff secretary who oversees archiving would have to go back and piece it together. That I did see. That was common.”
Farah then questioned what those documents could possibly contain to elicit such a reaction from the former president.
The original claim was made in the book Confidence Man by the New York Times’s White House correspondent Maggie Haberman. An excerpt of the book alleges that service members had to make multiple trips to Trump’s personal bathroom to fix toilets that were clogged with flushed papers, according to a Thursday report.
“It’s one more sign of the criminality and lawlessness of Trump and his White House and the hypocrisy,” host Ana Navarro said. “I knew they were full of crap, but really, I didn’t realize it went this far.”
Farah explained that there was a process within the White House to destroy documents that were “sensitive but not classified.”
“You were told to put them in [the ‘burn bag’], and then, they’d be collected at night. They were properly destroyed. That did not mean, though, that you were supposed to destroy them. They went through an archiving process,” she said.
Former lawyer and host Sunny Hostin gave a history lesson on National Archives regulations that began after former President Richard Nixon’s tenure. “The problem with that law is: How do you enforce it? There’s no enforcement mechanism in the law,” she said, referring to current regulations.
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Host Whoopi Goldberg did not make an appearance in the episode, as she continues to wait out her suspension for her comments about the Holocaust.
