Trump Campaign Dismisses Speech Plagiarism Claims
The Trump campaign on Tuesday dismissed criticism that Melania Trump directly lifted two passages nearly word-for-word from the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at t he D emo cratic Nation a l Convention, calling the complaints “just absurd“.“ T here's no cr ibbi n g of Michelle Obama's speech,“ said Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager. “Certainly, there's no feeling on her part that she did it,“ he said. “What she did was use words that are c o m m o n words.“
M r s T r u mp's star turn at the Republican Convention night captivated a GOP crowd that had rarely heard from the wife of Donald Trump. The passages in question focused on lessons that Trump's wife says she learned from her parents.
Manafort said Mrs Trump was aware of “how her speech was going to be scrutinised“ and said any notion that she picked up portions of Mrs Obama's convention talk was “just absurd“.
Reuters
M r s T r u mp's star turn at the Republican Convention night captivated a GOP crowd that had rarely heard from the wife of Donald Trump. The passages in question focused on lessons that Trump's wife says she learned from her parents.
Manafort said Mrs Trump was aware of “how her speech was going to be scrutinised“ and said any notion that she picked up portions of Mrs Obama's convention talk was “just absurd“.
Reuters
Source: Economic Times, 20-07-2016
