Melania Trump was never expected to be a standout speaker at the Republican National Convention. While she is a beautiful, bright, and fiercely loyal companion to Donald Trump, her limited English has mostly kept her on the sidelines on the campaign. That changed this week when she was tapped to speak during the Republican National Convention’s first night. Surprisingly, Mrs. Trump’s speech became the most talked about moment of the evening. Unfortunately, it was because large portions of her script were lifted almost directly from Michelle Obama. Still, she’s not the first person to be charged with plagiarism. Here are a few others:
Hillary Clinton: “No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.” After the Obama campaign accused Clinton of stealing lines in 2008 — a claim supplemented by The New Republic, which accused her of stealing lines from then-Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) — she ought to have learned her lesson. But in 2016, she stole lines from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who responded by telling NBC News’ Meet the Press, jokingly: “We’re looking into the copyright issues here.” Clinton was accused of lifting other lines, too — and Sanders supporters responded on Twitter with the wry hashtag: #StealtheBern.
Joe Biden: “My ancestors who worked in the coal mines…”. Biden was found to have borrowed heavily from the oratory — and the biography — of British Labour Party leader Neal Kinnock, without attribution. In addition, it was discovered he had committed plagiarism while in law school. The scandal helped bring down Biden’s presidential campaign in 1988 — though Biden’s angry outburst at a reporter — “I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect” — didn’t help, either.
Michelle Obama: “…the world as it should be.” In 2008, the aspiring First Lady was accused by bloggers of lifting lines for her DNC speech from Saul Alinsky. Alinsky wrote, in Rules for Radicals (emphasis added): “The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.” Michelle Obama said: “And Barack stood up that day, and he spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about ‘the world as it is‘ and ‘the world as it should be.’” (Perhaps Mr. Obama who left out the attribution.)
Ironic, isn’t it?
Here’s the latest on the situation:
A convention speech delivered by Melania Trump is dominating the news for a third day.
A speechwriter for Donald Trump’s company said Wednesday she made a mistake and apologized for using passages from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech in Melania Trump’s speech to the GOP convention Monday night.
Meredith McIver said she offered to resign but Donald Trump refused to accept her resignation.
In a statement issued by the campaign, McIver said Mrs. Trump had told her that she admired Mrs. Obama, and had read passages from Obama’s speech as an example of things she liked. McIver said she wrote down the passages and later included them in the speech.
“This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant,” McIver said.
Source: Breitbart
SO TRUE…..BUSH SAID THAT OBAMA COPIED HIS SPEECH TOO…….AWESOME JOB MELANIA……YOU WILL DEFINITELY BRING BACK CLASS TO THE WHITE HOUSE……ITS TIME FOR TRUMP/PENCE PEOPLE…….AMERICA WANTS TRUMP…..Make America Safe Again.
So, when is the lame-Stream Media going to get of their one-sided reporting and bash their Presidential Candidate!
EXACTLY!!!
That was in Stephen Coveys Book, so I guess Michelle got it from him and also Nancy Reagan. Big deal, She done a great job.
She’s as f**e as her RINO husband.
This is petty BS. The ladys speech was fabulous, She loves america and is happy to be a citizen.
Stupid dems n libs , it wasnt Melanias fault like you would like ppl to believe , morons
As Hillary would say what difference does it make our country has way bigger problems than a speech Melania would be a class act las First Lady
So what
I choose Melania over a man for a lady any day