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kpete

(72,904 posts) Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:45 AM Jul 2016

Today's NY Daily News cover is about the Melania Trump speech

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/

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Today's NY Daily News cover is about the Melania Trump speech (Original Post) kpete Jul 2016 OP

This needs to stay in the press... tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #1

Rudy and Chachi join forces melman Jul 2016 #2

Boilerplate vacuous speechifying sounds the same no matter who does it. n/t Old Union Guy Jul 2016 #3

Utterly disgusting. gademocrat7 Jul 2016 #4

Melania's "team of writers?" BlueMTexpat Jul 2016 #5

K&R napkinz Jul 2016 #6

Leave Melania alone! Rex Jul 2016 #7

tallahasseedem

(6,716 posts)

1. This needs to stay in the press...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:51 AM

Jul 2016

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)

2. Rudy and Chachi join forces

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:53 AM

Jul 2016

lol

Old Union Guy

(738 posts)

3. Boilerplate vacuous speechifying sounds the same no matter who does it. n/t

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:58 AM

Jul 2016

gademocrat7

(12,026 posts)

4. Utterly disgusting.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:01 AM

Jul 2016

BlueMTexpat

(15,700 posts)

5. Melania's "team of writers?"

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:19 AM

Jul 2016

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.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

6. K&R

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 03:37 PM

Jul 2016

Rex

(65,616 posts)

7. Leave Melania alone!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 03:39 PM

Jul 2016

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