Mary Trump's interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos

[rogue emissary]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-mary-trumps-interview-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos/story?id=71803869

(Full transcript linked above)

I thought this was an interesting tidbit.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You do have one potentially explosive allegation in the book. At least one. And you write that-- when the president was trying to transfer from Fordham to Penn, he had someone else, a man named Joe Shapiro, take his SATs?

TRUMP: Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: This was 1964. How do you know that?

TRUMP: I've been told this by people in my family. I am absolutely confident that it's true. I'm happy to finally to be able to speak about it. I also know that it was not the Joe Shapiro people have been focusing on, who just happened to be at UPenn when Donald was and who happened to be born in New York along, I'm guessing, with many, many, many other Joe Shapiros at around that time. But I stand by it, absolutely.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So to be clear, it's not Pam Shriver -- widow --

TRUMP: No.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Pam Shriver the widow of Joe Shapiro has come out publicly and said, "He didn't meet Donald Trump until Penn. There's no way this is true."

[mr_lebowski]

1. THAT is the explosive allegation?

Not the fact that he's clearly a severely mentally disturbed man-child with his finger on The Button?

Okay.

[StarfishSaver]

2. The OP didn't say it was an "explosive allegation"

They said it was an interesting tidbit. And it is.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Sorry for the confusion, it was not directed at the OP ...

"STEPHANOPOULOS: You do have one potentially explosive allegation in the book."

[StarfishSaver]

7. Ah - gotcha. Sorry!

[rogue emissary]

5. There is no low and he's like a carpet bombing . .

Of explosion allegations..

[StarfishSaver]

3. That is interesting

The Joe Shapiro everyone has been assuming it was is dead. I wonder wear the person who actually took the test is.

[rogue emissary]

6. If he's alive, he's got to still be loyal to Donny.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. The Trumps were punished for being kind to others

"And it's impossible to know who Donald might've been under different circumstances and with different parents. But clearly he learned the lesson from watching his almost 8-year-old brother be punished for being kind, for being generous, for being sensitive, for having interests outside of what my grandfather thought was acceptable."

That explains a lot.

[intrepidity]

9. Good to know

It means the real test-taker may still be alive and will talk one day.