In her statement – witten on Trump Organization letterhead – McIver identifies herself as a in-house staff writer at the company and a “longtime friend and admirer of the Trump family”. So you were not alone if you felt an intense sense of déjà vu when the Daily Show put Donald Trump Jr.’s speech under the microscope and found that one jarring passage contained a striking similarity to a paragraph in a column in the American Conservative written by one F.H. Buckley. NY billionaire Donald Trump clinched enough delegate votes to be officially selected as Republican presidential nominee Tuesday evening in the roll call voting at the ongoing Republican National Convention.
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Questions about plagiarism surfaced for a second day in a row, this time in the eldest son’s speech.
In addition to a call for unity, Pence plans to make the case that he’s prepared to govern. He’ll be back in Cleveland on Wednesday, delivering formal remarks on Thursday.
Cruz’s name wasn’t formally placed in nomination even though he was closest to Trump in the primaries.
His children picked up the magnificence Tuesday, attesting that “his desire for excellence is contagious” (Tiffany Trump) and that “we’re the only children of billionaires as comfortable in a D10 Caterpillar as we are in our own cars” (Donald Jr.).
Cruz is not expected to endorse Trump in his speech, which was carefully screened by Trump campaign officials, the senator’s aides said.
Compare that to what Michelle Obama said in Denver, where her husband, then an Illinois Senator, was nominated for president: “Barack and I were raised with so numerous same values: like, you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do”.
“I apologize for the confusion and hysteria my mistake has caused”, Ms. McIver said. “The media is spending more time doing a forensic analysis of Melania’s speech than the Federal Bureau of Investigation spent on Hillary’s emails”.
In a campaign marked by insults and inflammatory rhetoric, Trump tapped into a deep vein of unhappiness running through white Middle America, giving voice to millions who felt left behind in the rush to globalization and who eschewed traditional establishment Republicans like Bush in favor of a brash political outsider who promised to “Make America Great Again”. A person she has always liked in Michelle Obama.
Republicans vow that in a Trump administration, the USA will reclaim its historic role in the world.
Speakers scheduled Wednesday night include Gingrich, the former House speaker who was considered a finalist for the vice presidential slot; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, another former Trump rival; and Florida Gov. Rick Scott. “Lock her up!” Failed Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson went so far as to associate Clinton with Lucifer.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, citing a “breaking-news situation”, cut off convention coverage to do a phone interview with the candidate. The chaos prevented delegates and members of the media from getting into the Quicken Loans Arena for the evening’s proceedings.
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From Vox: And Chris Christie’s speech on day two, while nominally a critique of Clinton’s foreign policy judgment, was framed as a “prosecution” of Clinton in which he repeatedly asked the crowd whether she was “guilty” or “not guilty.” .
