Haberman and Swan Book Reveals White House Staff Monitored Trump's Trash for Torn Documents

Hindustan Times—A new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan titled 'Regime Change' offers an inside account of Trump's second-term White House, with the most striking claim being that staff monitored the president's trash to intercept documents he had torn up — an apparent repeat of document-handling issues that defined his first term. The New York Times published a takeaways piece highlighting the most significant revelations from the book, which cover staffing chaos, loyalty tests, and policy improvisations. A separate Hindustan Times item noted the trash-monitoring detail as the book's most newsworthy disclosure. One DNyuz op-ed that was misclustered into this group argued Trump's ego would embarrass the Knicks at a potential White House ceremony — a separate story. The Haberman-Swan book is expected to generate sustained political controversy as it circulates ahead of the 2026 midterms.

• Hindustan Times — Book claims White House staff monitored Trump's trash to retrieve torn documents he wasn't supposed to destroy
• DNyuz — Op-ed warns Trump's ego could embarrass Knicks at White House
• New York Times — NYT takeaways: the book covers staffing chaos, loyalty tests, and policy improvisation inside the White House