White House covered up Melania taking credit for Obama's booklet. Here are the receipts.
White House covered up Melania taking credit for Obamas booklet. Here are the receipts.
"Be Best," indeed.
Aaron Rupar
May 8, 2018, 1:04 pm
The White House tried to cover up the fact that First Lady Melania Trump took credit for a booklet she lifted from the Obama administration as part of her Be Best campaign, according to records from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
When Melania introduced her campaign during a public event on Monday, the White Houses webpage about the initiative directed people to read Talking with Kids About Being Online, a booklet by First Lady Melania Trump and the Federal Trade Commission.
But shortly after the event ended, observers noticed that Talking with Kids About Being Online looks almost identical to a booklet released by the Obama administration entitled Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids about Being Online. For the second time in less than two years, Melania was exposed for lifting material from the Obamas during a major public appearance.
By Tuesday morning, the White Houses Be Best webpage had been quietly changed. No longer was the booklet described as being by First Lady Melania Trump now, it is merely promoted by First Lady Melania Trump.
Later on Tuesday, Melanias communications director, Stephanie Grisham, released a statement addressing the First Ladys latest plagiarism controversy. But instead of apologizing or even acknowledging that the campaigns website had been changed, Grisham attacked the media for being interested in the story in the first place.
After giving a strong speech that was met with a standing ovation and positive feedback, the focus from opposition media has been on an educational booklet, it says. Our office will continue to focus of helping children and I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions, and focus on some of the children and programs Mrs. Trump highlighted in her remarks yesterday.
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