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Donald Trump's Wife Melania Trump, PLAGIARIZES Parts Of Michelle Obama's 2008 CONVENTION SPEECH!!

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 7:51PM · 1938 views
At least one passage in Melania Trump's speech Monday night at the Republican National Convention plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

Side-by-side comparisons of the transcripts show the text in Trump's address following, nearly to the word, the first lady's own from the first night of the Democratic convention in Denver nearly eight years ago.
Fact checking the speeches
The controversy quickly overshadowed the speech, which was to have been her introduction to voters. It focused on her immigration to the US and her love for her husband.

A Republican operative familiar with how the campaign was handling the speeches said a number of senior aides had a role, edited Melania's speech, suggested changes and provided guidance.

The Trump campaign released a statement on the speech after the similarities were uncovered, but the statement did not mention the plagiarism charge.
"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," according to Jason Miller, the senior communications adviser.
Donald Trump's Wife Melania Trump, PLAGIARIZES Parts Of Michelle Obama's 2008 CONVENTION SPEECH!!

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Steve Williams Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 8:10PM

Your word is your bond... When did Michelle copyright that phrase?

Steve Williams Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 8:20PM

In the 1st century, the use of the Latin word plagiarius (literally kidnapper) to denote stealing someone else's work was pioneered by the Roman poet Martial, who complained that another poet had "kidnapped his verses". "Plagiary", a derivative of "plagiarus" was introduced into English in 1601 by dramatist Ben Jonson to describe someone guilty of literary theft.[7][9]

The derived form plagiarism was introduced into English around 1620.[10] The Latin plagiārius, "kidnapper", and plagium, "kidnapping", has the root plaga ("snare", "net"), based on the Indo-European root *-plak, "to weave" (seen for instance in Greek plekein, Bulgarian "плета" pleta, Latin plectere, all meaning "to weave").

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 8:26PM

Can you show me where "Your word is your bond," was PLAGIARIZED in Obama's 2008 CONVENTION SPEECH from THE BUSH CONVENTION or for that FACT, any such phrase that Michelle Obama PLAGIARIZED?

I can show you Melania Trump's PLAGIARIZM and where she LIED saying she wrote the speech herself.





Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 8:30PM

Let me break this down for you.

Plagiarize - pla·gia·rize.

Take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 8:33PM

Trump campaign denies speech was plagiarized http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation...

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 8:39PM

No one to be fired after Melania Trump speech plagiarism episode http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/mel...

What a scandal, what will we call this STEVEN: "Plagiarism-GATE!!!"

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 8:43PM

Trump is furious over his wife plagiarism.... WHO TAKES THE FALL?

Steve Williams Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 11:04PM

Political speech isn't very inventive for the most part. If she'd said something like "ask not what your country can do for you..." it might be noteworthy.

Steve Williams Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 11:12PM

You know they are desperate when they drag out this clown.

On February 4, 2015 Williams apologized for and recanted an Iraq War story he had told on the January 30 Nightly News broadcast, that a military helicopter he was traveling in had been "forced down after being hit by an RPG.”[44][45] Williams's story was criticized soon after it was aired by Lance Reynolds, a flight engineer on board one of the three Chinook helicopters that had been attacked.[46] Reynolds and other crew members said they were forced to make an emergency landing, and that Williams's Chinook arrived a half-hour to an hour later.[45][47]

In his original on-air reporting of the incident on March 26, 2003, for Dateline NBC, Williams had said only that "the Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky . . . by an RPG" and made an emergency landing. But in introducing the piece, NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw described Williams as having "got [him]self into . . . a close call in the skies over Iraq,"[48] and the story was headlined, "Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC's Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire."[45] A book published by NBC in 2003 said that "Army Chinook helicopters [were] forced to make a desert landing after being attacked by Iraqi Fedayeen," with Williams aboard.[49]

In a 2007 retelling, Williams did not state that his craft had been hit, but said, "... I looked down the tube of an RPG that had been fired at us, and it hit the chopper in front of us." This contradicted the statements by the crew of the craft that was hit, that it was at least 30 minutes ahead of the Williams's helicopter. However, the soldiers who piloted Williams’s helicopter in Iraq said no rocket-propelled grenades had been fired at the aircraft, a fact that Williams did not dispute and apologized for. Also, a military helicopter that preceded Williams’s helicopter to a landing spot in the Iraqi desert did sustain damage from an RPG, but it was at least a half-hour ahead of Williams’s flight, making it unlikely that he could have “looked down the tube” of the weapon.[50] In a 2013 account, Williams said that his helicopter had been "hit … and landed very quickly."[51]

In a February 5, 2015 interview with CNN, the pilot of the Chinook in which Williams was travelling said that while the aircraft did not sustain RPG fire, it did indeed sustain small-arms fire and the door gunners returned fire.[52]

On February 10, 2015, NBC News President Deborah Turness announced Williams's suspension from Nightly News for six months without pay for having misrepresented the Iraq incident.[5]

Other incidents Edit
The Iraq War controversy prompted greater scrutiny of several earlier statements made by Williams, including some he made regarding Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.[53][54] For example, Williams referred inconsistently to a suicide that took place inside the New Orleans Superdome at the time of Katrina.[55] CNN reported in a 2005 television documentary that Williams said he was not a witness to the suicide, stating, "We heard the story of a man killing himself, falling from the upper deck."[56] In a 2014 interview, however, Williams said, "We watched, all of us watched, as one man committed suicide.".[57]

A reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall also received scrutiny. In 2008, Williams said that he was "at the Brandenburg Gate the night the wall came down," while CBS and other sources report that Williams did not arrive until November 10, the day after the gates between the two halves of Berlin were opened.[58][59] "'The night the wall came down' is widely recognized as November 9, 1989," according to a CNN report.[60] Williams joked in 2014 that he was upset that NBC's Tom Brokaw had arrived first in Berlin, adding that "by the second night of the story, we were all there."[59]

Another statement by Williams, this one regarding the Navy SEALs, also received attention. Williams said he flew into Baghdad with SEAL Team Six, but Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw stated the SEALs do not embed journalists.[61]

On June 19, 2015, his suspension drawing to a close, Williams gave another apology and a detailed and thoughtful account about his role in news going forward in an exclusive interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show.[62]

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 4:55AM

I can tell when you have nothing on this current subject. None of this has nothing to do with Melania Trump speech plagiarism episode. (LOL)

POOR STEVEN...

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 6:52AM

Did you see Hillary plagiarize the Wizard of Oz? Hmm, I wonder how many times that's been done?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 7:06AM

How about this subject, do you have anything to say on this subject?




Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 7:27AM

Trump got so mad that he flew back to New York. So far, can anyone tell me have they heard any of the speakers talk about the republican platform?

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 7:55AM

Hurwitz, the first lady’s head speechwriter, has written for the Obamas for eight years and for Michelle Obama exclusively for nearly seven. The two have worked so closely together that nearly every word the first lady has spoken in public has been written or edited by Hurwitz.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/s...

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 8:14AM

It’s not as if the earlier speech was especially memorable: It sounds like typical wife-of-the-nominee boilerplate. Any aspiring first lady at any point in American history could have said the same thing, more or less, and struck the right note for the occasion.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe...

robert powell Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 8:49AM


Donald Trump's Wife Melania Trump, PLAGIARIZES Parts Of Michelle Obama's 2008 CONVENTION SPEECH!!

SUBJECT

or

......"Donald Trump's Wife Melanija Knavs, AGREES with Michelle Obama's LOVE of Baraka Hussein Obama"

but the commentators HERE....trivialize BILLIONAIRES and Intelligent People with......

"...Trump is furious over his wife plagiarism.... "

Tuesday, July 19th 2016 at 8:43PM
Deacon Ron Gray

"....Did you see Hillary plagiarize the Wizard of Oz? ..."

Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 6:52AM
Steve Williams

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Melanija Knavs was NOT born Stupid .....to come to America at 16 and end up with a BILLIONAIRE

-----she is in a POWER struggle with the KIDS, she was a Trophy for an oldMan but the SUPERIOR to kids....

Bottom Line...... She is not stupid... she can still get in bed with Whomever and have BILLIONS......

It was a speech by a lady that wants to be in MAIN bed at the White House

....and she expressed her LOVE of the Man she would like to be in that bed with....same man as Michelle has.....

hey Donald is old enough to be her father and Obama is African and her age......with large hands

hey Donald is furious because he knows HER.....

Siebra Muhammad Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 1:09PM

Melania Trump didn't steal a sentence from Michelle Obama's speech but an ENTIRE paragraph, word for word VERBATIM! And it's so obvious too, how did they think this would get past mainstream media undetected? She at least could've used a speech from one of the former first ladies of the U.S., not the First Lady of 2008-present.

I can't believe the excuses people are making for her on CNN. If one of my students did this, I would have failed them. Even if she didn't plagiarize, the worst part is the she lied about writing the speech.

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 2:11PM

The latest I just heard is that her speechwriter has taken responsibility, saying she included those passages because Melania told her she admired Michelle.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 2:35PM

Then Melania LIED that she wrote her speech.

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 2:47PM

Maybe, maybe not. Do you believe in speechwriters Ron?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 3:25PM

I thought that I could believe Melania a republican nominee First Lady, as she LIED to the people that she wrote her speech. Is that OK with you?




Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 3:27PM

Michelle hasn't written any of her spoeches. Did you ever expect Michelle to fact check any of
them?

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 3:29PM

I guess Ron, if you were to give a speech next week in Phila., you'd write it yourself and fact check everything.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 3:51PM

You should rest for sure that Obama's campaign staff thoroughly vetted this speech that Michelle Obama our first lady gave to the people of the United States.

This is the problem with trumps campaign staff, somebody did not give a damn about what trumps wife would say to the American people. With a scandal... "Speech Gate 2016"

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 4:20PM

Maybe you should be a speechwriter Ron.

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 4:20PM

Or maybe a teleprompter.

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 4:23PM

Or a banker maybe.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 4:55PM

What you need to do is STOP BEING A TROLL, WITH NOTHING POSITIVE TO ADD THIS CONVERSATION.

Steve Williams Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 9:16PM

I'm just a little fish in a big pond.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at 9:40PM

Also, you need to stop feel sorry for yourself because you bring alot of NegativenessTo yourself When you try to misdirectThe subject Of the conversation.



Steve Williams Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 12:23AM

I don't misdirect the subject, I expand on it. Just how far do you think you can go with picking apart Melania's speech?

Steve Williams Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 12:26AM

Now there's something new to pick over and you could just as easily talk right here about Cruz, but you won't.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 4:58AM

You will also tell a damn LIE at the drop of a hat, as you try to carryout your trolling ways. This subject is about Donald Trump's Wife Melania Trump, PLAGIARIZES Parts Of Michelle Obama's 2008 CONVENTION SPEECH and not about CRUZ.

If you want to talk about CRUZ, start a blog STEVEN. You are an American MAN, use your freedoms and STOP CRYING .



Steve Williams Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 6:55AM

I'm not going to start a blog about Cruz. MSNBC said it was going to be the big news today so I figured I'd see something from you Ron. Don't you find such a myriad of blogs cumbersome?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 9:20AM

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign finally admitted that what happened was plagiarism. That means that all of you apologist whoever's running interference for the trump machine are wrong as hell. See Steven, this evidence is always been your face which you failed to see that you willing participate in the Trump cover-up. Steven, that is what you been doing.

Steve Williams Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 1:33PM

Someone needs to run interference otherwise how exciting would that be?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 2:50PM

So, what I hear you saying is, that BEING DISTRACTING AND LYING IS EXCITING TO YOU? WOW!!!!

You know Steven, I believe that, that is your nature.



Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 2:59PM

Melania Trump’s stunning plagiarism at the Republican National Convention should by all rights be fatal to her husband’s campaign for president, not merely because she plagiarized but because of who she plagiarized from. Melania, who claimed beforehand that she wrote her speech "with as little help as possible," stole from none other than Michelle Obama, whose family has been the target of the right’s most bitter hatred and ridicule for a decade now.

Donald Trump has argued again and again that Barack Obama is an incompetent danger who is trying to drive the country aground, yet it’s the words of Obama’s own wife that the Trump family has seen fit to appropriate as its own. Those two things are impossible to square. If the Obamas are so odious and hazardous, how could their values be worth adopting? Or to reverse the equation, since the Obamas’ values are so evidently worthy of adoption, as Melania demonstrated through her theft, then the case against the Obamas falls apart.

The particular passage that Melania chose to lift makes her transgression all the more devastating. Michelle Obama spoke eloquently about working hard and treating others with respect and dignity. “Your word is your bond," she said—and so, in an extraordinary irony, did Melania repeat after her. If you copy without attribution a passage about hard work, dignity, and your word being your bond, then you lack all dignity yourself.


READ MORE: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/18/...

Steve Williams Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 3:27PM

No Ron, I'm saying it's exciting to your readership.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 3:39PM

Now you are saying that you feel that your brand of BULL💩 needed to be exciting to my readership? No Steven, the truth is.

Donald Trump has argued again and again that Barack Obama is an incompetent danger who is trying to drive the country aground, yet it’s the words of Obama’s own wife that the Trump family has seen fit to appropriate as its own. Those two things are impossible to square. If the Obamas are so odious and hazardous, how could their values be worth adopting? Or to reverse the equation, since the Obamas’ values are so evidently worthy of adoption, as Melania demonstrated through her theft, then the case against the Obamas falls apart.

The TRUTH STEVEN, can you answer that?




Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 3:43PM

Now you are saying that you feel that your brand of BULL💩 needed to be exciting to my readership? No Steven, the truth is.

Donald Trump has argued again and again that Barack Obama is an incompetent danger who is trying to drive the country aground, yet it’s the words of Obama’s own wife that the Trump family has seen fit to appropriate as its own. Those two things are impossible to square. If the Obamas are so odious and hazardous, how could their values be worth adopting? Or to reverse the equation, since the Obamas’ values are so evidently worthy of adoption, as Melania demonstrated through her theft, then the case against the Obamas falls apart.

The TRUTH STEVEN, can you answer that?




Steve Williams Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 8:21PM

Barack Obama IS an incompetent danger, Michelle Obama's speechwriter notwithstanding.

Steve Williams Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 1:50AM

Ivanka did a beautiful job.

robert powell Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 9:23AM

Donald Trump's Wife Melania Trump, PLAGIARIZES Parts Of Michelle Obama's 2008 CONVENTION SPEECH!!

SUBJECT

-----yet the 'blackHebrewIsraelite' gives the BIA "whiteMan' a platform to CONTINUOUSLY, dennnigggerate and

DISRESPECT Our GREATEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT......Baraka Hussein Obama with OFF SUBJECT 'whiteTrash'

".....Barack Obama IS an incompetent danger, Michelle Obama's speechwriter notwithstanding....."

Thursday, July 21st 2016 at 8:21PM
Steve Williams

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STEVEN, twin of deaconKingJames euroRACISM....take your slave with you when YOU LEAVE BIA, an African American Family SITE

.....where 95 % of African American Families and Melania LOVE...President Baraka Hussein Obama


Steve Williams Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 9:31AM

I liked Mr. Obama well enough, until I found out his word was not his bond. There is no public option.

robert powell Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 10:01AM



AGAIN....

Donald Trump's Wife Melania Trump, PLAGIARIZES Parts Of Michelle Obama's 2008 CONVENTION SPEECH!!

SUBJECT

-----yet the 'blackHebrewIsraelite' gives the BIA "whiteMan' a platform to CONTINUOUSLY, dennnigggerate and

DISRESPECT Our GREATEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT......Baraka Hussein Obama with OFF SUBJECT 'whiteTrash'

".....Mr. Obama........I found out his word was not his bond. There is no public option."

Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 9:31AM
Steve Williams

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The GREATEST BIA, social service "...public option..." you can GIVE BIA is that YOU LEAVE BIA, an African American Family SITE

.....And take your RACISTLY I G N O R A N T cartoons....deaconHarry with you......


Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 10:33AM

Where have been Steven? The reason why this public Option did not happen was because of the obstruction of the Republican Party in The house and the senate did not doing there jobs for the American people, fighting Obama every step of the way. Blame the Republican Party for that for participating in a war on the American people.

robert powell Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 11:06AM


AGAIN....

Donald Trump's Wife Melania Trump, PLAGIARIZES Parts Of Michelle Obama's 2008 CONVENTION SPEECH!!

SUBJECT

-----yet the 'blackHebrewIsraelite' ...THE VICTIM....of BIA "whiteMan' stevenAdamSteve..writes....

".....The house and the senate ....... fighting Obama every step of the way. Blame the Republican Party for that for participating in a war on the American people...."

Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 10:33AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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No, NO AND NOno.......Senator Baraaka Hussein Obama SAID in 2007-2008

..............."CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN"

the negroRacists that VOTED for HIM in 2008

1. Could not Believe in CHANGE from their own condition
2. DID NOT VOTE....for CONGRESSIONAL help for OUR GREAT SENATOR/President in 2010/2012/2014.....
3. DO NOT show the LOVE that EVEN Melania Trump has for President Baraaka Hussein Obama

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, July 22nd 2016 at 3:14PM

Let us talk about what you saw, OK?

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