{"id":20044,"date":"2020-07-11T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20044"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:00:09","slug":"sat-allegation-definitively-refuted-by-wife-of-trumps-friend-joe-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20044","title":{"rendered":"SAT Allegation Definitively Refuted by Wife of Trump&#8217;s Friend Joe Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mary Trump\u2019s SAT allegation refuted by widow of President Trump\u2019s pal<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Yaron Steinbuch<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/6aIMRO3kiI_default\/index.html?videoId=6170435075001\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ex-tennis star Pam Shriver pushed back against the explosive allegation in a tell-all memoir by President Trump\u2019s niece that he had hired pal Joe Shapiro \u2014 the former pro\u2019s late husband \u2014 to take the SATs for him.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Trump wrote in \u201cToo Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Man\u201d that Trump enlisted the help of Shapiro to take the exam so he could get the scores needed to transfer from Fordham to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker to take his SATs for him,\u201d Mary Trump wrote in her upcoming book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/widow-trumps-friend-pushes-back-mary-trump-sat\/story?id=71678433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was much easier to pull on in the days before photo IDs and computerized records. Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well,\u201d she wrote without providing proof or attribution.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro, an attorney and a former executive at the Walt Disney Co., died in 1999 of non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma, according to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Shriver, now an ESPN tennis analyst, said that if the book refers to her late husband, who was Trump\u2019s friend, she is confident the allegation is false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy late husband Joe Shapiro passed away 21 years ago. He was a man of great integrity, honesty; he was a hard worker. He was literally the smartest person I ever met,\u201d Shriver said in a video posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>She said the two men did not meet until after Trump had transferred to the prestigious Wharton for his junior year, when Shapiro was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe went to University of Pennsylvania, member of the class of 1968. It was while he was at University of Pennsylvania where he met Donald Trump. They became friends; they loved the sport of golf. They shared the same hometown of New York City; they shared the same campus. They stayed in a little bit of touch through the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shriver added: \u201cBut obviously Joe\u2019s not here to defend himself and say what happened, but I just want to recollect what he told me about where he met Mr. Trump. And I want to thank all of Joe\u2019s close friends and his sister Beth for our talks in the past 24 hours about what an upstanding, outstanding man Joe Shapiro was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shriver said Shapiro and Trump remained friends over the years \u2014 and that they visited him a few times at Trump Tower, ABC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you put somebody\u2019s name in print in a book, you want to make sure the facts around it are correct, especially if they are not living because it\u2019s not like Joe is here and he would have known how to deal with this,\u201d she said, according to the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Shriver added that she had already refuted the allegation when a reporter asked her about it years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels unfair,\u201d she said, according to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Shriver said she has seen Trump at tennis events over the years and that he always said that \u201cJoe Shapiro was the smartest man I ever met.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15958150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-15958150 lazyloaded\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" alt=\"President Trump's nice Mary Trump's new book &quot;Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Man&quot;\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/mary-trump-book.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump\u2019s niece Mary Trump and her new book, \u201cToo Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Man\u201d<span class=\"credit\">Simon &amp; Schuster; Peter Serling\/Simon &amp; Schuster via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, the White House forcefully denied the allegation by Mary Trump, the daughter of the president\u2019s late elder brother, Fred Trump Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe absurd SAT allegation is completely false,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher Simon &amp; Schuster, which said the book would hit the shelves on July 14, two weeks ahead of schedule, said in a statement Monday that it stands by its contents.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/09\/widow-of-president-trumps-friend-shoots-down-sat-allegation\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/09\/widow-of-president-trumps-friend-shoots-down-sat-allegation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Trump\u2019s SAT allegation refuted by widow of President Trump\u2019s pal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}