‘There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech’ insists Trump’s campaign chief after critics point out word-for-word similarities between Melania’s convention and Michelle Obama’s from eight years ago

Tuesday, July 19, 2016
By Paul Martin

Trump’s wife used passages that matched Obama’s nearly word-for-word
Spoke in prime time to the Republican national Convention
Focused on lessons that Mrs. Trump said she learned from her parents
She has insisted that she wrote the speech with only a ‘little help’
Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, denied that the speech was plagiarized and said ‘these are common words’
He insisted the controversy was an example of the aggressive treatment received by people who challenge Hillary Clinton
Manafort also said Trump wasn’t likely to fire anyone over the screwup

By David Martosko, Us Political Editor
Dailymail.com
19 July 2016

Melania Trump’s opening night speech at the Republican National Convention was heralded as a success Monday night – until critics pointed out multiple passages that appeared to be lifted nearly word-for-word from Michelle Obama’s address to the Democratic National Convention eight years ago.

After the similarities were pointed out, the Trump campaign admitted that the aspiring first lady’s talk ‘included fragments that reflected her own thinking’ but came from somewhere else.

By the time the seemingly-plagiarized portions of the speech became headline news Tuesday morning, Trump’s campaign chairman furiously denied that any of the remarks were intentionally lifted from the now-first lady’s speech – turning the focus instead on Hillary Clinton.

‘There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech,’ Paul Manafort told CNN. ‘These were common words and values that she cares about her family, and things like that.’

‘I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night, she knew that. To think that she would be cribbing Michelle Obama’s words is crazy. … This is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down. It’s not going to work.’

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