The controversy surrounding Melania Trump’s GOP convention speech has dominated the media for the past 36 hours.
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“I’m not lying about anything, Chris”, Manafort told CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who was pushing Manafort to admit parts of the speech were copied.
A Trump campaign spokesperson said late yesterday that Melania Trump “wanted to communicate to Americans in phrases they have heard before”, which is probably the funniest of all possible explanations.
Cruz was not expected to offer a full-throated endorsement in his speech, nor to rock the boat too much, given that his remarks were being vetted by Trump’s people. “No harm was meant”, McIver said.
Paul Manafort is Donald Trump’s campaign manager.
“A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama”, McIver says of Mrs. Trump.
“The pattern that I see is a pattern of the media not being prepared to look at what’s really going on in America, look at what’s really happening with the Trump campaign, look at what really is being tapped into, and looking at why it’s working”, he said.
“You are denying – by failing to acknowledge something that is also true – which is that some of those words came from Michelle Obama’s speech in 2008”.
Melania Trump’s speechwriter has emerged, saying she offered her resignation following the plagiarism accusations in the billionaire’s spouse’s RNC speech Monday night.
If Donald Trump wins the presidency, will we have an ambivalence to the rule of law; dissenters and people who do not adhere to the criteria of the majority are jailed?
“I apologise for the confusion and hysteria my mistake has caused”, said McIver, who was identified as an in-house staff writer from the Trump organisation.
“I don’t think anyone would ever accuse us of being appeasers” of the opposition, Trump said of his family.
Pence was nominated by acclamation, and a long line of speakers took turns ripping Clinton, sometime to shouts of “lock her up”.
Trump, the in-your-face outsider, won at the cost of alienating many traditional Republicans both on the right and in the center, and the divide has spilled over into the convention, though without overwhelming it.
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The speech required her to overcome her wariness about public speaking and the traditional role of the politician’s wife, as well as her heavily accented English, to present herself to the public as her husband’s partner, a poised mother and wife passionate about issues affecting women and children.
