Monday 8 August 2022 12:40 PM Photographs of Trump" rel="tag">Donald Trump's toilets apparently clogged with torn-up paper ... trends now

Images allegedly depicting Donald Trump's toilets clogged with torn-up pieces of paper have emerged after the former president denied claims he used to flush official documents during his time in the White House.

Maggie Haberman, a New York Times White House correspondent who closely followed Trump during his presidency for an upcoming book, claimed to have obtained pictures of presidential notes stuffed into the bowls.

The images published by Axios purportedly show two sets of notes in the toilets, one of which is said to be located in a White House bathroom, and the other in an undisclosed location abroad during a foreign presidential trip - though the papers appeared to be handwritten rather than official documents.

Trump previously dismissed allegations he was prone to ripping up White House documents in February, when Haberman first tweeted about the alleged incidents.

'Here's some reporting from the book's later years — White House residence staff periodically found papers had clogged a toilet, leaving staff believing Trump had flushed material he'd ripped into pieces,' the author said amid promotion of her book 'Confidence Man' which is set for release in October.

Trump quickly refuted the claims, declaring the story as 'categorically untrue and simply made up by a reporter in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book.'

This sentiment was echoed by his communications manager, who told Axios this week amid the release of the pictures: 'You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of paper in a toilet bowl is part of your promotional plan.

'We know... there's enough people willing to fabricate stories like this in order to impress the media class — a media class who is willing to run with anything, as long as it anti-Trump.'

DailyMail.com has contacted Trump's office for comment.