Wife of the front-running republican presidential candidate, Melania Trump delivered a not-so-original speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last night [Monday, July 18].
Taking a liking to First Lady Michelle Obama‘s Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech from back in 2008, Trump utilized direct quotes from the transcript and attempted to play them off as her own words. Called out via social media, journalist Jarrett Hill pulled out all possible receipts to show Trump was taking directly from Obama’s words.
Overlooking the fact that the speech was plagiarized, the senior communications adviser for the Trump campaign Jason Miller put out a statement concerning Trump’s word chose: “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. Melania’s immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which made it such a success.”
With too many similarities to be ignored, check out the speeches side-to-side below.
Melania must’ve liked Michelle Obama’s 2008 Convention speech, since she plagiarized it.#GOPConvention #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/vGmsG9KFx3
— Jarrett Hill (@JarrettHill) July 19, 2016
CORRECTION: Melania stole a whole graph from Michelle’s speech. #GOPConvention
WATCH: https://t.co/8BCOwXAHSy pic.twitter.com/zudpDznGng— Jarrett Hill (@JarrettHill) July 19, 2016