On CNN, RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer broke down Trump’s speech and compared her cliched language to other cliches by people like Kid Rock and John Legend. “Twilight Sparkle from ‘My Little Pony” said, ‘This is your dream, anything you do in your dreams, you can do now'”.
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But it’s hard to imagine that Melania Trump, who has never given a major political speech, would be allowed to write a speech without help.
“I mean if we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say, ‘Hey, who else has said them, ‘ I can do that in five minutes”, Spicer said.
The Trump campaign announced it doesn’t plan to fire anybody over the allegations. “She cares about her family”, Manafort said.
This is, at first glance, a startling response: The candidate’s wife is seemingly taking the fall for a speech that she probably did not write.
“This concept that Michelle Obama invented the English language is absurd”, Pierson said. Share your thoughts with us! On “CBS This Morning”, he said “There are not that many similarities”. “If we happen to share values, we should celebrate that, not try to make it into a controversy”.
Until this week, Melania Trump, 46, a former model from Slovenia, was best known for being seen and not heard.
Contrary to Spicer’s claim, however, Turnitin, a website frequently used in academia to identify plagiarism, examined the speeches of the current first lady and her possible successor and found that “the likelihood that a 16-word match is “just a coincidence” is less than one in a trillion”, the Washingtonian first reported.
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“In writing her handsome speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking”, the statement read.
