Donald Trump would sometimes chew on torn-up documents that he considered compromising, White House aide Omarosa Manigault said during an interview on MSNBC.
During an interview with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, Manigault Newman said that Trump “loved to tear up those documents” and alleged that there are “certainly things that I’m sure cannot be accounted for because Donald Trump became very very aware that a lot of these sensitive documents would at some point be made public.”
She said that “After [Trump attorney] Michael Cohen left the office and I walked in to the Oval, Donald — in my view — was chewing what he had just torn up.”
“It was very bizarre because he is a germophobe he never puts paper in his mouth,” Manigault Newman told Velshi, according to The Independent.
Manigault Newman’s revelation came after The Washington Post reported that the National Archives recovered 15 boxes of documents that Trump had improperly taken to his Florida Mar-A-Lago residence.
The agency since has requested a criminal investigation into the former president’s handling of the White House records.
