Rather than apologize for plagiarizing from Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, the entire Trump campaign, and many in the Republican Party have chose to keep the issue alive.
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And he didn’t stop there, going on to note similarities in phrases used by musical artists such as John Legend, Kid Rock and Ice-T.
A top Republican official cited Twilight Sparkle while disputing claims that Melania Trump plagiarized a Michelle Obama speech. “Twilight Sparkle from ‘My Little Pony” said, ‘This is your dream, anything you do in your dreams, you can do now'”.
Comparisons of the transcripts show the text in Trump’s address following almost to the word Obama’s speech from the first night of the Democratic convention almost eight years ago.
Challenged in his assertion by host Wolf Blitzer, Spicer, an adult man who presumably once believed in something, said, “Look, I just quoted Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony”.
“If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through Google, and say who else has said them, I can come up with a list in 5 minutes”, Spicer said.
In a live interview with CNN, Spicer compared lines of the possible First Lady’s speech to quotes from famous celebrities, showing how often these “common words” are used.
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort also addressed the controversy on CNN Tuesday morning.
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“We had a 2,000-word statement. She said something similar, too, so did Mrs. Obama plagiarize her?” “To think that she’d be cribbing Michelle Obama’s words is insane”.
