Discussion: Trump Organization Staffer Take Responsibility For Melania Speech Plagiarism

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It only took them HOW long to find somebody to throw under the bus?

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She wanted real money up front ! She would not accept an IOU

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Someone get me video of Paul Manafort saying yesterday that he spoke to Melania and that she told him she wrote it, and that he believed her.

Then that idiot spokewoman blabbing about how Michelle didn’t invent the English language.

And Chris Christie with his 93% bullshit.

And the little pony guy.

Man, TRUMP sure does love watching his minions make fools of themselves lolll.

It’d be funny if it wasn’t you know, the Presidency.

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This goes with my explanation. Melania wouldn’t understand how serious plagiarism is. Any American staffer would.

What about Manafort? I think he is in an untenable position now.
He staked his reputation on Melania not plagiarizing, to an extreme extent. Is someone throwing HIM under the bus, too?

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Tooooo late!

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As always the cover up is much worse than the crime, you now have hundreds of different documented lies from everyone involved. We better investigate.

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Is a picture of this speech next to the word ‘lickspittle’ in the dictionary?

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I had a boss who used to say: “You can delegate tasks, but you can’t delegate responsibility.”

And I would add: “And you sure as hell can’t delegate the responsibility of making sure that the facts you recite in a speech on international primetime television purporting to be your own personal history and values, ARE, in fact, your own personal history and values. That’s on you.”

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LOL…“Where’s the money, Lebowski?”

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Gee, could this have been handled any more ineptly? Wait for Manafort to carry on arguing that there was no plagiarism, because Obama didn’t invent the alphabet and Hillary hates good-looking women, or something.

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Someone saw Manafort’s appearance on CNN today and made this happen, specifically to destroy him.
Jared is my bet.

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I fail to see how owning up to this lets the campaign off the hook for not running the speech through readily available filters used to detect commonality of wording and phrases in speeches or other written and spoken works. No one double checks work product in this campaign? Individuals can provide content for surrogates or others to present publicly, and whatever they provide is rotely spewed?

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“This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused.”

President Trump told survivors of the 2017 ICBM “incident”.

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Here ya go

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Shorter Apology: Melania Trump looks up to Mrs Obama as inspiration.

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They are waiting to see if ‘the coast is clear’.

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