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President [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump) on Thursday inadvertently confirmed a key detail in the account of [Stormy Daniels](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/stormy-daniels), the porn star who claims she had an affair with him in 2006.
“He is obsessed with sharks,” Daniels said [in an interview with In Touch magazine](https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/stormy-daniels-full-interview-151788/) in 2011. “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.’”
On Thursday, Trump made very similar comments while speaking to supporters in Pennsylvania as he went off on a tangent.
“I’m not a big fan of sharks,” he said. “I have people calling me up, ‘Sir, we have a fund to save the shark, it’s called Save The Shark.’ I say ’no thank you, I have other things I can contribute to.”
Daniels was paid $130,000 just before the 2016 election to keep her allegations of an affair quiet. Trump has denied the affair, which Daniels said took place in 2006 when Trump’s third wife, [Melania Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/melania-trump), was caring for the couple’s infant child.