In an pathetic attempt to get past the gaffe of epic proportions, Trump’s campaign statement from Meredith McIver’s comes off as such obvious bullshit:
Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama’s speeches,” she said said in the statement. “This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant.
I apologize for the confusion and hysteria my mistake has caused.
Okay, so for just a moment, let's suspend reality and just take the Trump campaign statement as truth -- that Melania is a Michelle Obama fan and quoted the passages from Michelle's speech as an example, and that the inclusion into the primetime speech was an “innocent” error. I mean, really? Melania looking up and quoting Michelle Obama seems so implausible, but let's continue.
If this were true, why would Melania not notice that the words were Michelle Obama’s when she practiced the speech? I mean, if she liked and remembered the 2008 speech well enough to look it up and quote it in the first place, wouldn’t she remember that they were Michelle Obama’s words in the first place, when she saw them again?
The answer is obvious, of course. The speech was never meant to be biographical. It’s not about Melania, her family, her parents or her values. She looked at the speech — that someone else wrote — and thought, “this sounds good” and spent a whole lot of time practicing its delivery.
This is the entire Trump campaign: Covering up a ridiculous fiction with an unbelievable lie.
By the way, this made it onto primetime news in Canada yesterday night :)