McIver, co-author of some of Donald Trump’s books, said she offered to resign but the Republican nominee for president refused to accept her resignation.
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While Lewandowski praised McIver and punted the issue of her employment to the Trump campaign, he wasn’t always so forgiving – especially when it came to Manafort. He said it’s “terrific” that McIver, who is an employee of the Trump Organization, admitted inadvertently lifting the first lady’s phrasing from her 2008 convention speech word-for-word.
But as the speech stretched on without an endorsement, attendees began to repeatedly interrupt Cruz with shouts of “Trump!” and “We want Trump!”
“Mr. Trump told me that people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow from these experiences”, she wrote. No harm was meant.
The plagiarism charges threatened to overshadow Trump’s official ascent to the standard-bearer of a major United States political party and came just hours after the Trump campaign fiercely denied the overlap.
He continued to say that while he did not see the McIver’s letter, he personally knows her and contended that she is “a very honorable person”.
I apologize for the confusion and hysteria my mistake has caused. In another twitter post, Trump criticized the U.S. media for spending more time “doing a forensic analysis of Melania’s speech than the Federal Bureau of Investigation spent on Hillary’s emails”. “Certainly we’ve noted the Clinton camp was the first to get it out there in trying to say there was something untoward about the speech Melania Trump gave”, Manafort said during a Tuesday, July 19, press conference.
A side-by-side look at the two speeches reveals an uncanny similarity.
For the third day in a row, what was supposed to be a carefully scripted show of unity was thrown into turmoil by unexpected events that have raised questions about whether the party can unite around Trump to defeat the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, in the November 8 election.
According to the New York Times, the Trump campaign initially reached out to a pair of veteran Republican speechwriters, who wrote an initial draft that Melania Trump was unhappy with and rewrote extensively.
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“In writing her attractive speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances, included fragments that reflected her own thinking”, Miller said in a statement.
