Melania's Speech - The Saga Continues (And Gets Worse)
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Date: July 20, 2016 02:10PM
It just gets better and better. Meredith McIver, an in-house writer on the Trump campaign and ghostwriter of Trump's books, has taken responsibility for the plagiarism in Melania's speech. In doing so, however, she has only made things worse. An excerpt from her letter...
In working with Melania Trump on her recent First Lady speech, we
discussed many people who inspired her and messages she wanted to share
with the American people. A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama.
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.
McIver goes on to say that she offered Trump her resignation, but he refused. She then offered to write an apology letter, and Trump told her to go ahead. Unfortunately, no one seems to have vetted McGiver's apology, where she committed a cardinal sin - saying that Melania admires Michelle Obama. That just isn't done.
Meanwhile, Paul Manafort and his surrogates have absolutely insisted since this first blew up that there was no plagiarism in Melania's speech, despite the fact that there clearly was. And he pinned it on Hillary, who had nothing to do with any of this.
To top it off, Trump sent out a Twitter in the last hour saying something to the effect that it's great that Melania's speech is getting so much attention. Meanwhile, we go into day three of the convention dominated by Melania's speech.
Obviously, the Trump supporters view this as a blip. It's not. This whole incident brings to light the fact that the Trump organization is in chaos, with absolutely no coordination among the major players. Trump and his campaign manager are working with different scripts. You simply can't have that in a high level political campaign. The American people need to wake up and realize that the Republican nominee is a joke who can't run his own campaign, let alone the country.