The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website January 19, 2018:
Here’s what you need to know about shark attacks and how to fight back if you’re trapped. (Alice Li/The Washington Post)
Earlier this month, the Internet was gripped with a remarkable anecdote from Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury”: Apparently President Trump was so obsessed with watching gorillas fight on TV that his aides created a fake gorilla TV channel for him to watch?
This wasn’t true, as you certainly know by now. The gorilla channel excerpt was a joke propagated by Twitter user @pixelatedboat. It just sort of rang true to a lot of people, it seems.
It’s fair, after the gorilla channel incident, for people to have been skeptical of the following excerpt from a 2011 interview porn star Stormy Daniels conducted with the magazine InTouch Weekly, published in full for the first time Friday. The interview itself has attracted a great deal of attention because it corroborates reports from multiple outlets that Trump and Daniels had an affair in 2006 and reporting from the Wall Street Journal that Trump’s lawyer paid Daniels to keep quiet about it during the campaign.
Here is what we know about the allegation that an adult-film star reportedly was paid to remain silent about a sexual relationship with Donald Trump. (The Washington Post)
Daniels describes an evening when she joined Trump in his hotel room in Beverly Hills.
“The strangest thing about that night — this was the best thing ever. You could see the television from the little dining room table and he was watching Shark Week and he was watching a special about the U.S.S. something and it sank and it was like the worst shark attack in history. He is obsessed with sharks. Terrified of sharks. He was like, ‘I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.’ He was like riveted. He was like obsessed. It’s so strange, I know.”
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