"Certainly, there's no feeling on her part that she did it," he told CNN. "What she did was use words that are common words."
See. Just words. Organized in phrases. And sentences. Did Michelle have a patent on any of those words? Then how can it be wrong?
Manafort stopped short of suggesting that Melania actually wrote Michelle’s 2008 speech. So far.
And while Melenia was originally credited as the sole author of the speech, she suddenly gained a co-author or two to share the credit.
[Manafort] told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” that Melania Trump’s speech represents her views and opinions, while describing the process of writing as a collaboration. …
"In writing her beautiful speech, Melania's team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking.
And some apparently reflected other people’s thinking. Like, perhaps, the life story of an African-American family that Trump’s surrogates spent much of the evening attacking and devaluing, before taking what they wanted from the Obama story and claiming it as their own.
Tuesday, Jul 19, 2016 · 2:35:15 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner
In this morning’s press conference, Manafort, identified the real villain in all this:
This is what happens when Hillary Clinton is threatened by a female, the first thing she does is try to destroy the person
So, did Hillary tip off the press to the plagiarism? Did she sneak the passages into Melania’s speech? Did she send it by private email from Benghazi?
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Honestly, what’s far more disturbing than anything in Melania’s speech is the Trump campaign’s reaction. As with every mistake, every stumble, every outright lie, the Trump campaign hasn’t reacted by making a quick admission of guilt or providing a simple apology. Instead, Trump’s surrogates have attacked the media, attacked Democrats, and inexplicably attacked Hillary Clinton.
This isn’t the only example. It’s not even the only example this week.
But it’s an example that’s highly visible and emblematic of Trump’s inability to own up to a mistake, no matter how blatant.
How about, just this once, they admit a mistake? For a party that claims to be about personal responsibility, why won’t they show just a little?
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