But national campaign co-chair Sam Clovis was less sanguine, telling MSNBC that the speech should have been run through anti-plagiarism software.
"I'm sure action will be taken inside the campaign to make sure it will never happen again," Clovis said.
Source to NBC:
"It's piss-poor staff work," a source within the campaign told NBC News. "Melania has been humiliated. No doubt heads are going to roll."
Lewandowski:
Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was fired after clashing with Manafort, said on CNN that whoever approved the speech should be "held accountable."
Reince Priebus said he'd "probably" fire the writer.
CNN also says this:
It's set off infighting and finger-pointing within Trump's campaign, and two sources told CNN that Donald Trump himself is furious about it.
Melania is the love of Trump's life. He absolutely adores her, and if someone did do this to her whether through error or on purpose, Trump would be furious. If someone did it to her, I'd be furious. She doesn't deserve it as all accounts and everything we've seen indicate that she is a wonderful woman. As Chris Christie said, 93% of the speech is different, and she read it well.
My father talked to me after work this evening that all he has heard about all day was "that damn speech." People on FR may not think it's a big deal, but the general populace is talking about it.
Go boo-hoo-hoo on somebody else’s shoulder. I have no patience with panty-waist hysterics.