The passages in question focused on lessons that Trump’s wife says she learned from her parents and the relevance of their lessons in her experience as a mother.
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The billionaire was announced as the candidate at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio tonight.
A number of social media users juxtaposed Ashley’s song and Melania Trump’s speech, leading some to become true believers that the aspiring first lady was Rickrolling the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
During an interview with The Hill, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson rejected the notion any plagiarism had occurred, saying, “This concept that Michelle Obama invented the English language is absurd”.
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Speaker after speaker on Monday, the first day of the four-day convention at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans basketball arena, took aim at Clinton, presenting her as out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans and the inheritor of President Barack Obama’s “oppressive” administration. Plagiarism is the act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person. He drew Hillary Clinton, his boss’s rival in the November presidential election, into his defence of Ms Trump.
“This is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down”.
“It’s not going to work”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Clinton represents a third term of Barack Obama’s presidency instead of the “clean break from a failed system”.
May said, whatever the band’s views on Mr Trump, it did not allow politicians to play Queen songs.
Striking similarities Team Trump is on fragile ground.
A one-minute part of Melania Trump’s speech included words and phrases that nearly exactly mirrored Michelle Obama’s speech.
“Because we want our children – and all children in this nation – to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them”, said Ms Obama eight years ago.
Ms Trump, a former model from Slovenia, said she had read the speech over “once” because she wanted it to sound fresh, and that she had a “little” help in writing it.
Trump’s campaign has been marked by frequent controversy over his rhetoric on immigration and trade that has alarmed many in the Republican establishment.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was one of the few speakers to energize the crowd, delivering a full-throated takedown of Clinton and imploring delegates to shout “Guilty!” as he ticked through numerous accusations of wrongdoing.
“If we’re talking about 7 per cent of a speech, that was really, universally considered to be a good performance by Melania”.
Speaking to reporters on the convention floor, Trump Jr. said he was proud of Mrs. Trump’s speech, but said he imagined there were people “who should have cleaned it up better”.
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Another passage with notable similarities that follows two sentences later in Mrs. Trump’s speech addresses her attempts to instill those values in her son.
