‘That sounded like her to me last night’: Chris Christie insists Melania Trump plagiarism scandal is overblown because ’93 per cent of the speech’ wasn’t lifted from Michelle Obama
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s defense of Melania Trump’s controversial Monday night speech was the most aggressive of Tuesday morning
Former prosecutor said he couldn’t make a case for plagiarism because ’93 per cent of the speech is completely different than Michelle Obama’s’
Trump’s wife used passages that matched Mrs. Obama’s nearly word-for-word
She has insisted that she wrote the speech with only a ‘little help’
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor
Dailymail.com
19 July 2016
Chris Christie offered Tuesday morning’s most unconventional and daring defense of Melania Trump after Internet sleuths discovered passages from her Monday night Republican convention speech were nearly identical to a similar address Michelle Obama gave eight years ago.
The former federal prosecutor told NBC’s ‘Today’ show that he couldn’t make a case for plagiarism because ’93 per cent of the speech is completely different than Michelle Obama’s.’
‘They expressed some common thoughts,’ Christie said.
Plagiarism, the unauthorized and uncredited theft of words from a writer, can be established with as little as a paragraph or even a single sentence.
But Christie seemed confident the overnight outrage would quickly be eclipsed by whatever happens on the second day of the Cleveland, Ohio convention.
‘The worst day of a convention is the first day because everyone’s building up to it and everybody gets breathless, both the delegates and the media, about something to cover, a controversy to talk about,’ he said.
‘I think after tonight we won’t be talking about this. We’ll move on to … whatever comes up tonight.’
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