Ok, Iâm all done with this. They botched what was supposed to be a harmless bit of drivel by Melania. Does this story have legs⌠beyond the fact that team trump canât even get a little bit of fluff right? 
SCOOP. TRumP ORganIZatiON employee has TIEs TO HITLARY wHO hates STRONG Women.
Honest to God. IF she did it are you REALLY going to tell us they will throw her under the bus? This is reminiscent of the crap they pulled with Michelle Obama (sheâs too strong, she needs to be reined in, etc) of 2008. BULL PUCKY. People that WORK for Trump donât mean squat. You DO NOT blame your familyâŚpolitics 101. AND then you are trying to tell us that it wasnât vetted by MANAFORT before they loaded it into the teleprompter? REALLY? This is way too much crap for me to swallow.
âThe plagiarism issue quickly became the dominant media story on day two of the Republican National Convention.â
London Cleveland is burning.
They havenât seen an inferno this big since the river caught fire in 1969.
I sympathize but it came on a night where they were trying to tie âCrooked Hillaryâ with all the fear and loathing and lying from non-whites into a toxic little bundle and they put Melania Trump right in the crosshairsâŚas if she didnât matter.
Does this story have legs⌠beyond the fact that team trump canât even get a little bit of fluff right?
Aside from the fact that literally everybody closely associated with Trump is a lying ignoramus who doesnât know how the internet works, it will have legs only up until the point of the next Trumpian clusterfuck, which should be in about 35 minutes.
Throwing the trophy wife under the bus already? I thought that wouldnât happen until after Trump lost in November.
Melania decided to copy Michelle Obamaâs speech. She knew that she couldnât use exactly the same words, so she made some small changes. Then she asked a Trump family member to help with the English. This person would not have known the text was plagiarized, and wouldnât know about turnitin or other resources.
This is a classic style of freshman plagiarism, especially with second language learners.
Except, for the most part, she DID, in fact, use exactly the same words. And I do not believe for one second that Melania wrote a single word of that speech.
The party of family values and personal accountability strikes again.
Narcissistic psychopaths. All of them!
Youâre underestimating the stupidity of Melania.
The reason my theory is better is that any adult American would know how big a deal plagiarism is.
I canât speak to attitudes in Slovenia specifically, but I can tell you that in CIS states, students laugh off plagiarism as nothingâwell, until you fail them a couple of times.
Does anyone think that Melania Trump went back and dug out Michelle Obamaâs speech, then plagiarized it? The real points of interest are that she claimed to have written the speech, and that the plagiarizing was from such an obvious source.
This minor episode bespeaks incompetence, arrogance and or simple cluelessness, none of which is a good thing to see in a presidential campaign.
"Two anonymous sources briefed on the matter told the New York Times that Matthew Scully, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush working on contract, wrote an early draft of Trumpâs speech several weeks ago.
But Trump made substantial changes to the draft, with help from a Trump Organization employee, once she got her hands on Scullyâs text, one anonymous source told the newspaper."
First, does Melania really seem like the type of woman who would give a damn about getting her speech juuuuust right? Think on it for a moment. Doesnât she strike you as the type whoâd just be glad someone wrote something for her and that she can get back to shopping, not eating, and getting some beauty treatment done? So, I canât really see her combing through the speech and making serious changes. But you know whoâd do that? You know exactly whoâd do that! Her husband. Her controlling, dumb ass, âgreatestâ husband probably took a look at it and decided to make his own changes, did a little Googling and stole from Michelle Obamaâs speech. Thatâs why Melania herself is being thrown under the bus. Because when itâs a choice between falling on his own sword or stabbing his wife in the heart, well, plastic foreign women in need of a visa are a dime a dozen.
A likely scenario, I believe, is that she asked for or somebody provided examples of speeches made by nominee spouses. She found something she liked in one of them, and thought her changes were enough to make the section her own.
Your theory makes sense except on one detail. Sure, Trump could have plagiarized someoneâs speech, hypothetically.
But no WAY would he have copied Michelle Obamaâs speech.
That is a âSADâ theory.
It makes a lot more sense that Melania, not knowing anything about speeches or being First Lady, would have checked out Michelleâs speech on youtube. The whole process could have taken less than 1/2 hour of her time, until she handed off the text to someone for editing.
The Trump campaign is now blaming two low-level interns, a Mr. Baron and a Mr. Miller.
Apparently, theyâll be available to the press later today, but only by telephone.
And only one at a time.
Theyâre really not gonna like it tonight, when Donald Jrâs speech includes:
âAsk not what Donald Trump can do for you. Ask what you can do for Trump!â
Actually, I was reading a story Monday morning that said that as of Friday many of the speeches hadnât been vetted by the campaign. I imagine a conversation about vetting probably went something like this:
Manafort: I want to take a look at Melaniaâs speech.
DT: Iâve seen it. Itâs amazing, really, truly amazing speech. Probably the best a candidateâs wife has ever given. I reviewed it personally myself. Dotted all the iâs, crossed all tâs. That kind of thing. Itâs great.
Manafort: Sure you donât want me to take a look at it?
DT: No need. Iâve already seen it. Itâs really perfect. Iâm very pleased.
Also, even if Manafort had looked at it I just donât think itâs realistic to think he wouldâve realized it was plagiarized. It may not have ever even occurred to him to run it through software to make sure they were her own words. He may have simply trusted that they wrote it themselves as he was told.
If you look at the comments on Melaniaâs speech, there is a strong current of assumption that she is not bright enough to have written her speech, or perhaps that she is not bright enough to have brought off the plagiarism, or that she is not bright enough to have realized that her copying was plagiarism. (I may have been guilty of some or all of that myself.)
Does that line of thinking demean women, or models (or pretty women), or immigrants?