ABC News just reported that a woman named Meredith McIver has sent out the above letter claiming responsibility for Melania Trump’s disastrously plagiarized RNC speech the other evening.
I can’t even begin to count the number of ways in which this makes things look even worse for everyone involved.
(note: some of these I immediately realized myself; others had already been pointed out by multiple people on Twitter before I had a chance to post this diary...wouldn’t want to be accused of “plagiarizing” anyone!!)
- Melania is now on record as being a huge admirer of Michelle Obama...who her husband and his campaign have spent the past year trashing along with the President.
- Melania claimed to have written the speech herself. This directly contradicts that.
- Paul Manafort claimed that the speech was in no way plagiarized, regardless of who wrote it. This directly contradicts that.
- The campaign issued a statement claiming that “a team” of writers put the speech together. This contradicts that.
- Ms. McIver openly states that she’s employed by Trump’s business, not the campaign, which raises the question of whether this is even legal.
- Melania supposedly read the passages from Obama’s speech to McIver, but didn’t realize that they were the same lines, verbatim, that she was reading during the actual speech?
- Our own KagroX wondered whether this “Meredith McIver” is even a real person (perhaps she’s another “John Miller”?)
Please feel free to add to this list below...