Melania Trump’s Republican National Convention speech sounded a lot like Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech.
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Thirty-six hours later, the Trump campaign issued the press release it could have – should have – sent out in the hours after allegations of plagiarism in Melania Trump’s speech first surfaced.
“A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama”, McIver said.
And Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said that Melania Trump “really wanted to communicate to Americans in phrases they’ve heard before”. “This was my mistake, and I feel bad for the chaos I have caused”.
Speaking to reporters before Cruz took the stage, Roe wouldn’t say whether the Texas senator would endorse Trump tonight in his speech, saying people would have to tune in.
“Yesterday I offered my resignation to Mr. Trump and the Trump family, but they rejected it. Mr. Trump told me people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow from these experiences”.
There are few details about McIver, who was described as an in-house writer for the Trump Organization where she started in 2001. She added that she had “a little help”.
McIver’s statement revived persistent questions about Trump’s campaign operation and distracted anew from his attempts to reshape his image. He arrived in Cleveland with an eye on his own political future, holding a rally with hundreds of supporters who greeted him with chants of “2020” – suggesting Cruz’s backers have no interest in seeing Trump become a two-term president.
McIver was a co-author on a number of Donald Trump’s books, including the 2004 bestseller “How to Get Rich”, the New York Daily News reported. But a speech by Melania Trump on Monday night has momentarily stolen the spotlight. Social media was full of video mashups showing comparisons of her remarks to Obama’s 2008 convention speech. Even ex-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski urged his replacement, Paul Manafort, to find out who was responsible. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Manafort was guilty of gross understatement when he said the words his candidate’s wife used were “similar” to the words the president’s wife used.
“I know her very well, and I know her husband very well, and I like them both”, he said in another clip.
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Cuomo said that regardless of how the plagiarism happened, the Trump campaign refused to acknowledge it because “that’s the way this campaign works”.
