Trump Campaign Has No Plans to Fire Anyone Over Melania Speech Flap

July 19, 2022 By election

Katie Pavlich,

Cleveland, OH - The Trump campaign has issued a statement to CNN surrounding the controversy over Melania Trump’s plagiarized RNC convention speech last night in Cleveland: Nobody is getting fired. 

Donald Trump and his children are reportedly furious with the campaign team, particularly head honcho Paul Manafort, over the incident. Melania is also reportedly enraged. 

Guy Benson,

Melania Trump’s Speech Plagiarized…Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC Address

Fired Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — who is reportedly still getting paid and a part of the candidate’s inner circle — is now calling for the resignation of his erstwhile rival Paul Manafort, the man who vanquished him in an intense internal power struggle. See the MSNBC clip below for additional context. On RNC day two, the knife is plunged:

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the knife is plunged https://twitter.com/khinman/status/755420220492251136 …

Here’s today’s groan-worthy spin, followed by a “wow” report from Morning Joe’s team, detailing the backstory to all of this, and the internal sniping within the Trump campaign. For what it’s worth, the RNC Chairman thinks the plagiarism is ‘probably‘ a fireable offense:

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“What she did was use words that are common words,” Paul Manafort, explaining away plagiarism in Melania Trump’s convention.

Plagirism

 
Two full passages, ripped off nearly word-for-word. There are several mash-ups floating around on social media, but this one is the most damning, I think.  The juxtaposition speaks for itself.  Indisputable, surreally stupid, plagiarism:
This is an embarrassing, unforgivable, unforced error by the Trump campaign.  Here’s why:

(1) Melania Trump’s speech was one of the highlights of the convention’s opening night — which fizzled down the stretch, as multiple “featured” speeches bled well past primetime, lost live televised coverage, and were delivered to an increasingly abandoned arena.  Poor planning and execution, especially from the showbiz candidate’s campaign.  Even so, Mrs. Trump’s well-received and nearly universally-praised remarks were a clear bright spot.  Until the plagiarism was revealed, that is, at which point it began to dominate postgame coverage.  It will be a major storyline again today.

 
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  • RockyMtn1776

    IF Melania wrote this speech herself there is no one to blame or fire. IF she DID have help, I’d say this was a set up to embarrass the Trump family. Trump has had people he trusted in his campaign before try to stab him in the back. Politics is a filthy, dirty business.