Anonymous wrote:i think this was a gracious explanation.

Kudos from Trump for not firing this woman.

Let's all move on from this non issue.

Perhaps Trump himself should stop tweeting about it!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is off-topic, but it gets better. Apparently DT Jr called a kasich aide in may to offer the VP spot, including, wait for it, responsibility for domestic and foreign policy. when asked what mr trump would be responsible for, DT Jr replied, making america great again. this stuff just writes itself.

Cite? Or maybe you should start a new thread on this with the cite.

Here ya go!

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/288471-report-trump-camp-offered-to-make-kasich-most-powerful-vp

So who was responsible for the Rick Roll, the speechwriter or Melania?

Speechwriter? What speechwriter? She didn't write anything new!!

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand this excuse? If Melania originally told the speechwriter that she admires these remarks of Mrs. Obama, doesn't that indicate that Melania knew they were Mrs. Obama's words when she spoke them at the convention? How does this help things?

It is even better than that. It sounds like Melania actually read the phrases to the speechwriter over the phone. She obviously knew they were Michelle's words.

And the speechwriter slightly changes the wording, so it was not a simple "cut and paste" mistake. It was clearly deliberate, but not very skillfully plagiarised.

Anonymous wrote:I know this is off-topic, but it gets better. Apparently DT Jr called a kasich aide in may to offer the VP spot, including, wait for it, responsibility for domestic and foreign policy. when asked what mr trump would be responsible for, DT Jr replied, making america great again. this stuff just writes itself.

Cite? Or maybe you should start a new thread on this with the cite.

I know this is off-topic, but it gets better. Apparently DT Jr called a kasich aide in may to offer the VP spot, including, wait for it, responsibility for domestic and foreign policy. when asked what mr trump would be responsible for, DT Jr replied, making america great again. this stuff just writes itself.

It is a weird explanation. On one hand, it successfully pins the blame on someone who won't suffer professional consequences (it would have been asking the original speech writers a lot to take accountability for this). On the other hand, if Melania read those passages to the speechwriter, she clearly knew they were from Obama and should have checked. Normally, the speechwriter takes more blame than the speaker in these sorts of circumstances because you don't know if the speaker should have recognized the passage. And here the campaign is explicitly saying Melania did know they were from Obama.

Anonymous wrote:Y’all are just pissed that

a. The speechwriter took full responsibility
b. The speechwriter is a woman
c. Trump did not fire her

....Because, if he had fired her, y’all would be prattling on and on about how he hates women.........

You've missed the point. This whole episode has been hilarious. Twitter was at A+++ levels of comedy for 20 straight hours yesterday.

No one is "pissed" because ...no one really cares what Melania thinks about anything.

As a bonus, we got to see how incompetent the Trump organization is at putting out fires.

Carry on.

why is no one blaming Melania for lying about having written the speech herself?

"I read it once over, and that's all because I wrote it with as little help as possible,'' she told TODAY's Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview on Monday.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y’all are just pissed that

a. The speechwriter took full responsibility
b. The speechwriter is a woman
c. Trump did not fire her

....Because, if he had fired her, y’all would be prattling on and on about how he hates women.........

Speak proper English. Y'all is not a word.

Maybe not for the liberal elites living in the DC bubble, but for those of us outside of DC, it really is a word.

Let's catalog the Trump campaign's OFFICIAL responses:

1) It wasn't plagiarism. Lots of people use those words.

2) It wasn't plagiarism. Something something Sparkle Pony.

3) It was plagiarism, but some no name Trump Organization staffer accidentally included words that Melania meant as inspirational.

Now, how do we explain then why Melania didn't recognize those words as lifted? How do we explain that there was already a draft speech that Melania apparently ignored?

More to the point, how many more "explanations" is the Trump Campaign going to offer.

Anonymous wrote:I think the worst thing about this for Trump's supporters is the admission that Melania likes Michelle Obama! How will they be able to stomach that one!

That's what I find most unbelieveable about this statement, a Trump admitting to liking ANY of the Obamas.

He's due for a new model, anyway. Maybe that's why he's trying so hard to lose the election? Looks bad for a sitting president to trade up.

Anonymous wrote:i think this was a gracious explanation.

Kudos from Trump for not firing this woman.

Let's all move on from this non issue.

Will this inspire the Trump campaign to have a vetting process? Doubtful.