Absolute unrepentant plagiarism. It will be interesting to see how the Donald handles this—“I use only the BEST words from the BEST people.”
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And in that program Republican strategist Steve Schmidt does point that the speech was indeed a highlight but after the plagiarism was found it turned this troubled night into a catastrophe.
Then he fell for the excuse that it was for sure the appalling work of the speech writers and Melania was blameless, but that became more embarrassing (you would think that was impossible) when it was pointed later elsewhere about what Melania told in an early interview about her speech “work”.
Yup. She either plagiarized it herself or accepted a plagiarized version created by someone else. Either way, the buck stops with the Donald. Since he can’t very well throw her under the bus, it will be interesting to see his reaction. His sociopathic reaction.
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And he actually looked like he had an okay first night for a minute there. <snicker>
Uh, yes. How is that even a question? If we’re talking about immigration policy and enforcement, not allowing in immigrants who have a very high chance of murdering my citizens is a pretty high priority. It sucks if they do it elsewhere, but that’s their problem. No need to make it ours. What’s your position? That we shouldn’t discourage dangerous criminals from immigrating here because that’s discriminatory and callous towards their home country?
Melania’s speech contains a rickroll, which means it’s either deliberate sabotage by someone in the campaign, or the campaign itself is just laying more breadcrumbs on the “greatest troll of all time” path of evidence.
Let’s not forget:
Tomorrow is July 20th
We’ve been hearing about Trump’s fund-raising prowess, tomorrow is when the bullshit hits the fan and we find out exactly how much they have actually raised.
“She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.” - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Last night on O’Reilly, Trump claimed it was his idea to host the convention in Cleveland.
Politifact rates the claim as “False”.
Money quote from the article;
I wonder if Trump knew when he got into this race that it was going to expose him as an insecure narcissist, con artist, and pathological liar.
For that matter, I wonder if he cared people knew.
Not a problem. Gov. Christie assures us that the speech was, in fact, 93% plagiarism free. So it’s all OK.
I’d like to give him a glass of water that’s 93% fecal coliform free.
Every day you post something truly amazing about Trump, and every day I look at the projections and his chances of winning aren’t 0.00001%. It’s astounding. v I mean, I didn’t even need you to note that Trump did not choose Cleveland, because of course he didn’t. Of course it’s chosen a few years ahead. How could it not be?
I really am fascinated, in the way one might be fascinated by passing by a raging Greyhound Bus fire, at what lies Trump will come up with over the next four months. Truly, each lie tops the last.
It was once said of Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney - whose nickname was “Lyin’ Brian” - “He lies even when he doesn’t have to, just to stay in shape.” Mulroney was a championship liar, one of the greatest; had lying been an Olympic sport he’d have brought home a medal haul to rival Michael Phelps. But Mulroney is NOTHING like Trump, not even in his league. I have never seen anything like it, truly, in all my life, and pray I never see it again.
But it works for Trump. He’s got a legit chance.
Do you think he knows he is?
A common trait of sociopaths is that they assume everyone is like them. Sociopaths believe everyone else is a sociopath, that they also lack morals and empathy, but that they’re just pretending not to.
Narcissists don’t know they’re narcissists, either. I’ve known a couple, and they think they’re the normal ones.
Trump flew back to New York last night and missed a fundraiser today. Still no proof he has any idea and I’ll be real interested to see the fundraising numbers due tomorrow
Christopher Buckley in his political comic novel The White House Mess wrote the deathless phrase, “That’s not just a tissue of lies; it’s an industrial broadloom carpet of lies.”
They’re making the case that it’s sabotage or incompetence…
If I had to place money on it, I would follow their opinion, but the idea doesn’t hold any attraction. It feels too stupid and too blatant to me…
What holds a far higher level of likelihood to my own experience is that Melania did indeed write it herself, and included those phrases herself (or with an inexperienced person) and then it was insufficiently checked.
Which is why they can’t fire somebody for it - either she or Donald put those words in the speech, and nobody is loyal enough to Trump to take a fall on this.
I have pushed back in the past against the notion that Trump’s base is low-income, perhaps unemployed, white men. The exit polls just didn’t bear that out, and I speculated about the type of person who actually represents his prototypical voter being an exurban white guy with a three car garage, a couple new trucks, some four wheelers for weekend fun, etc. This Buzzfeed piece by the guy some people blame for the Trump (#whinylittlebitch) candidacy delineates the type nicely:
Here’s an example of why I have a lot of trouble voting for Trump, even tho as people know, I’m not so keen on modern progressive orthodoxy.
Is Trump actually a democrat? Or are we looking at a guy whose next idea will be bringing back appointed Senators?
Oh and yea, the Melania thing is an example of the kind of incompetence that scares me if he’s actually dealing with Russia and China, who are some of the few things more dangerous than Islam jihad.
For US citizens, those “few things” include fireworks, cow stampedes, and lightning strikes.
How about the white supremacism? That’s my biggest concern with Trump.
What “white supremacism” of Trump? His campaign in and of itself is not “white supremacism.” White supremacism is something practiced by the Klan, etc. No, Trump’s not going to resurrect segregation or Jim Crow.
If you mean white supremacist supporters, like David Duke, I don’t like it, but whats the real difference between him, and Jeremiah Wright like Obama had 8 years ago? Both are hate mongers and race users. Both hate people like me, Jews.
I am disgusted with the time he seemed to make fun of Eric Garner, and the Diamond and Silk show, which is nothing more than a minstrel used to stereotype black women and play to that part of his base.
And I’ve stated a million times I oppose potentially ousting 12 million illegal immigrants who did what anyone would do for their families. Do some of the opponents of illegal immigration hate them from Mexico bc they’re not white? Absolutely. But most are scared of their jobs being taken, even for as unfounded as it is on balance.
His isolationism and “neutrality” with regard to certain conflicts is, however, one of my biggest concerns; as his love of Putin is. I guess I am a “neo-conservative,” (even tho in most ways I’m not conservative) and Trump seems to be a paleo-con, Lindbergh type.
You know Trump has tweeted neo-Nazi propaganda on multiple occasions, right?