'I did not flush White House papers down the toilet': Trump slams 'fake news' he clogged his bathroom with documents, insists he willingly gave boxes to the National Archives as Congress opens investigation into his conduct
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
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