Melania Trump Copies Michelle Obama Again
Story highlights
- Melania Trump was the main speaker at the Republican National Convention Mon
- Parts of Melania Trump's speech bear similarities to a like spoken communication given by Michelle Obama in 2008
(CNN)Donald Trump's presidential campaign doesn't programme to burn down anybody or to take disciplinary action over the controversy surrounding Melania Trump'southward plagiarism of Michelle Obama, CNN learned Tuesday.
Trump's entrada hopes to only move on without farther addressing questions virtually the speech.
Aides to the presumptive Republican nominee are scrambling to move by the imbroglio after a passage in Melania Trump'southward speech Mon dark, which headlined the Republican National Convention'southward opening night, closely mirrored a portion of Michelle Obama's address to the Autonomous National Convention in 2008.
It's ready off infighting and finger-pointing within Trump's entrada, and two sources told CNN that Donald Trump himself is furious about it.
Trump's aides chalked the controversy up to media bias and blamed Hillary Clinton's campaign -- even though the apparent plagiarism was discovered by an contained journalist and had gone viral before Clinton'due south allies and Democrats even weighed in.
In an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day," campaign chairman Paul Manafort denied the allegations of plagiarism.
"To think that she would practise something like that knowing how scrutinized her speech communication was going to exist last dark is just really absurd," Manafort said.
Manafort said the words Melania used were not "cribbed" but are common words.
"At that place's no cribbing of Michelle Obama's speech communication. These were common words and values. She cares virtually her family," Manafort said. "To think that she'd be cribbing Michelle Obama's words is crazy."
Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee'south chief strategist, invoked "My Petty Pony" in defending the spoken language in an interview with CNN'south Wolf Blitzer.
"Melania Trump said, 'the strength of your dreams and willingness to work for them.' Twilight Sparkle from 'My Niggling Pony' said, 'This is your dream. Anything you can practise in your dreams, yous tin can do now,' " Spicer said.
He also compared passages of Trump's speech with phrases from musicians John Legend and Kid Rock.
"I mean if we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say, 'Hey, who else has said them,' I tin can exercise that in five minutes," Spicer said. "And that's what this is."
However, Trump's campaign faced criticism even from allies, who largely blamed staffers -- not Melania Trump.
Former Trump entrada manager Corey Lewandowski said Tuesday that whoever is responsible for writing the should be fired.
"Whoever was the staff person who wrote this speech should be held accountable and should be fired," Lewandowski told CNN'southward John Berman and Kate Bolduan.
Lewandowski, who is a CNN contributor, was fired from the Trump campaign last month.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said at a Bloomberg Politics issue Tuesday forenoon he'd "probably" fire whoever was responsible for including plagiarized quotes, though he added: "Information technology all kinda depends on the circumstances and how these things are written."
The controversy quickly overshadowed the voice communication, which was to have been her introduction to voters. Information technology focused on her immigration to the United States and her dear for her husband.
The Trump campaign released a statement on the speech afterward the similarities were uncovered, but it did not mention the plagiarism charge.
"In writing her beautiful oral communication, Melania's team of writers took notes on her life's inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her ain thinking. Melania's immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which fabricated it such a success," according to Jason Miller, the senior communications adviser.
New Bailiwick of jersey governor and Donald Trump ally Chris Christie defended the spoken language, maxim, "In that location's no way that Melania Trump was plagiarizing Michelle Obama's speech."
"I just don't run across information technology," Christie told CNN'southward Jamie Gangel in an interview Tuesday, adding afterwards, "If we're talking about 7% of a speech, that was really, universally considered to be a good operation by Melania. I know her. There's no way that Melania Trump was plagiarizing Michelle Obama'southward speech."
Who wrote the speech communication?
Side-by-side comparisons of the transcripts show the text in Trump's address following, nearly to the word, the would-be hereafter first lady's own from the first night of the Democratic convention in Denver well-nigh 8 years ago.
There were a lot of questions about who wrote the spoken language -- merely little clarity.
Sources familiar with the entrada'southward handling of Melania Trump's speech identify top Manafort deputy Rick Gates as the person inside the entrada who oversaw the entire speech communication process for Melania Trump.
Gates is denying he oversaw the procedure of putting together the speech.
When CNN's Jim Acosta asked Gates if he oversaw the Melania Trump speech process, he said "absolutely not."
Miller also denied Gates' involvement.
"Rick's not a speechwriter and he doesn't accept a role in the campaign's speechwriting process -- we take other people for that," he said. "Anybody maxim differently is beingness intentionally misleading."
Democrats' office
Manafort, on CNN'southward "New Day," said the scrutiny over Melania Trump's speech was the work of Clinton'southward entrada.
"This is once again an example of when a adult female threatens Hillary Clinton, she seeks out to demean her and have her down. It's not going to work," he said.
However, Trump's aides oasis't pointed to any prove of Democrats' interest in fanning the controversy.
The Clinton entrada'south communications director Jennifer Palmieri said Manafort's comments about Clinton's involvement were untrue.
"Nice endeavor, not truthful. @PaulManafort, blaming Hillary Clinton isn't the respond for ever Trump entrada problem," Palmieri tweeted.
Clinton's campaign on Tuesday focused instead on bashing Republicans for other speeches Monday night, including the mother of a Benghazi set on victim saying she'd like to run across Clinton imprisoned and the crowd chanting at another point, "Lock her upwards!" In a fundraising email to supporters, Clinton's campaign said "there's a difference between drawing a contrast and baselessly saying your opponent belongs in jail."
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday that President Barack Obama did not lookout Monday night's speeches.
"As it relates to Mrs. Trump'due south speech communication, I'll let all of you weigh in on all of that and try to larn more about how exactly it was written," Earnest said. "What I can say that in 2008, when Mrs. Obama spoke, she received an enthusiastic reception and potent reviews because of her words, her life story, and the values that she and her husband deeply believe in and try to instill in their kids."
Before in the day, Melania Trump told NBC's Matt Lauer: "I read once over it, that's all, because I wrote it ... with (as) little help equally possible."
Here is Trump, on Monday:
"From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work difficult for what you desire in life, that your discussion is your bond and you do what yous say and continue your hope, that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily lives. That is a lesson that I continue to pass forth to our son," Trump said.
And we demand to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow. Because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to piece of work for them."
And here is Obama, on August 25, 2008:
"And Barack and I were raised with and so many of the same values: that you lot work difficult for what yous want in life; that your word is your bond and yous exercise what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and fifty-fifty if y'all don't agree with them.
And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and to pass them on to the adjacent generation. Because we want our children -- and all children in this nation -- to know that the just limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."
The reaction:
"(To be honest), I was more than offended by but almost every other speech than Melania's plagiarized paragraphs," quondam Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau jokingly tweeted equally the accusations went viral hours after Trump'southward accost.
Journalist Jarrett Hill seems to accept been one of the first to notice the similarities on Twitter.
He'south a big fan of the Obamas, and told CNN over the phone that one particular line from Michelle Obama'south 2008 speech really spoke to him: "To know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."
When he heard Melania Trump beginning maxim "the just limit to your achievements," he knew something was wrong.
Hill said he so Googled Michelle Obama's spoken communication and saw the like lines.
"It was kind of a full recall moment," he said.
After he posted the comparison on Twitter, his tweet garnered 16,000 retweets.
"Um. This is becoming a thing," he afterward tweeted.
Never gonna let yous downwards?
In an even stranger twist, some on social media posited that Trump surreptitiously Rickrolled -- a common Internet meme involving singer Rick Astley -- everyone in the middle of her speech.
"He will never give up," she said of her husband. "And virtually importantly, he will never, ever let you down."
The chorus of the 80s archetype sounds very similar: "Never gonna give you up/ Never gonna let you downwardly/ Never gonna run around and desert you."
A fleck of groundwork -- Rickrolling is where you become someone to unwittingly click on a link to the video of the Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Upward."
And then, for example, if someone were to tell you lot to click here, saying it's another article about Melania Trump, and y'all click on that link, yous would be taken to an Astley video and thus take been Rickrolled.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html
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