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Last edited Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:51 AM - Edit history (4)
A Republican convention crowd just cheered and applauded the words of Michelle Obama,b/c someone else mouthed them.
https://twitter.com/HunterDK/status/755256461391826945
Side by side: Michelle Obama 08 and Melania Trump 16.
(h/t @jarretthill who caught this).


https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/755365064136359936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The split screen of Melania reading lines plagiarized from Michelle Obama is so, so damaging.
https://twitter.com/mikehearn/status/755260215021432832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
& check THIS out:
http://gawker.com/melania-trump-apparently-plagiarized-a-section-of-miche-1783889522
https://politicalwire.com/2016/07/19/trumps-amazing-entrance-steals-the-show/
https://politicalwire.com/2016/07/19/melania-trump-plagiarized-michelle-obama/
Here's the statement the Trump campaign released overnight on the Melania/Michelle speech similarities.

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/755362560325644289/photo/1
The plagiarized text was about THE VALUE OF HARD WORK

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/135241/mashup-melania-trump-reading-text-plagiarized-michelle-obama-incredibly-damaging
and this too:
https://twitter.com/i/moments/755298357774585856
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12221566/melania-trump-michelle-obama
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html
http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/07/19/melania-trump-republican-convention-speech-plagiarism/87278088/
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)It's a pattern of fraudulent behavior that they just tried to pull over the American people's eyes on national television. NO MORE.
melman
(7,681 posts)lol
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)gademocrat7
(12,026 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,700 posts)Per Melania, she wrote the speech "mostly" herself. http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/melania-trump-plagiarized-plagiarism-speech-rnc-michelle-obama-republican-national-convention-wrote-herself-video-watch/
She's either a liar or a plagiarist. Perhaps both.
Rex
(65,616 posts)
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