Trump Speechwriter Now ADMITS Melania’s Speech Was Plagiarized From Michelle Obama
Immediately following the exposure of the blatant plagiarism in Melania Trump’s GOP convention speech, the Trump campaign sent numerous surrogates out to the media, claiming it was untrue, there was no plagiarism, how dare you even suggest such a thing, you liberal idiots?!
Today a Trump speechwriter admitted she was responsible for plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech, and offered to resign.
Trump rejected her resignation, because what’s a little plagiarism to a guy who already retweets white supremacists and is running on a white nationalist platform?
But it gets even better. Because the reason this speechwriter included these passages at all was because Melania Trump read them to her as examples of the kind of things she wanted to say in her speech.
[Meredith] McIver explained that she included the passages from Michelle Obama’s speech after listening to Melania Trump read passages from the 2008 address.
“Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama’s speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant.”
So to recap, Melania Trump actually chose those plagiarized sections of the speech herself, from a woman who’s been relentlessly demonized by the right wing, then didn’t even remember where they came from when it came time to deliver the speech. Or did she?
So Paul Manafort, Chris Christie, and all the other Trump surrogates who bombarded the media with denials now owe everyone an apology for lying, when they had to know the plagiarism was real. They probably already knew which staffer was responsible when they were on CNN and MSNBC and Fox News, lying about it.
The sheer unprofessionalism and dishonesty of the Trump campaign has never been more evident.