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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Wednesday lauded first lady Melania Trump's keynote speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC), adding "no mother in this country" wants to raise children in Democratic-led cities. Noem told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" host Sandra Smith that the president's wife delivered a "powerful" speech showcasing "her mother's heart" Tuesday night, and exemplified how the president respects women. Following the first lady's speech, Trump walked up to her and kissed her on the cheek before the two walked inside the White House hand-in-hand. "I think what's incredibly important is that mothers get up every...

Democrats have no shame. The mainstream media will do everything they can in an effort to undermine our First Lady’s reputation among the American people. This “witch hunt” as well as the witch hunts against our President ended un-successful! It backfires instead as she received Palm Beach Atlantic University’s “Women of Distinction” award. Melania Trump, who changed her primary residence to Palm Beach along with President Trump Melania Trump, who changed her primary residence to Palm Beach along with President Trump last year, said she was “grateful” to accept the award. According to the school’s website, the award is given...

First lady Melania Trump is “a con artist,” a former GOP strategist and critic of President Donald Trump claimed. “Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone. She’s a con artist also. All of them are. It goes with the last name," Steve Schmidt, who worked in the George W. Bush White House and ran Senator John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008, tweeted about Melania Trump. Schmidt, who recently quit the Republican Party over the administration's policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border, was responding to Matthew Miller, an MSNBC justice and security analyst, who in his tweet, said, “This entire schtick is...

First lady Melania Trump will take the stage and make remarks Thursday night at the guest of honor at the Kuwait-America Foundation's gala dinner. She will make remarks and be honored by the foundation "for her dedication to causes affecting women and children in the US and abroad," per East Wing communications director Stephanie Grisham. President Donald Trump will accompany the first lady to the dinner, which is held at the Embassy of the State of Kuwait. "As an American woman with an international background, she is an inspiration to women and girls worldwide. She is honored by the recognition,...

First lady addressed US military personnel at a naval base in Italy on Saturday In a rare speech, Melania Trump paid tribute to the sick children she had met in Europe and the Middle East in her first trip abroad as first lady Mrs Trump also said she was honored and blessed to have met Pope Francis Melania, dressed in a black custom-made Dolce & Gabbana dress, later held Trump's hand as their boarded Air Force One to head back to Washington Melania Trump has proudly signed off from her first foreign trip as first lady before walking to Air...

Link to YouTube video. First lady's speech starts at 3:40. https://youtu.be/dxIBnfgwj90

Donald Trump Talks About Melania's Speech to George Stephanopoulos | Speechwriter came to Donald Trump and said she made a mistake and he rejected her resignation.

Jarrett Hill was sitting in a Los Angeles Starbucks scrolling through Twitter and answering Facebook messages while listening to Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday night. Something made him stop. It was the phrase "strength of your dreams." "It kind of made me pause for a minute," Hill told The New York Times. "I remembered that line from Michelle Obama's speech." Not bad for a guy chilling at a coffee shop. Except, Hill is actually a trained journalist who not long ago was laid off from a broadcast job. According to his LinkedIn profile, his last...

An in-house writer and longtime friend of the Trump family has stepped forward with an apology for her involvement in the preparation of Melania Trump's speech to the Republican National Convention Monday night, which bore similarities to a Michelle Obama speech. The staffer, who identified herself in a statement as Meredith McIver, said she submitted her resignation Tuesday but the Trump family rejected it. “A person she [Melania] has always liked is Michelle Obama. Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in...

Meredith McIver, an in-house staff writer from the Trump Organization, has released a statement regarding Melania Trump's speech from July 18th, 2016, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Follow link to read.

An employee of Donald Trump’s company on Wednesday took responsibility for the passages in Melania Trump’s Monday night convention speech that were drawn from Michelle Obama’s address to the 2008 Democratic convention. Meredith McIver, an in-house staff writer with the Trump Organization, apologized in a statement distributed by the campaign. She said the Republican presidential nominee had rejected her offer to resign. The striking similarities between parts of Mrs. Trump’s speech and Mrs. Obama’s 2008 speech eclipsed the convention’s opening days and complicated the Republican Party’s effort to reintroduce Mr. Trump to the nation.

Interesting. A jpeg of the letter is posted. First saw this on @realdonaldtrump. Hope it was not already posted. Go ahead and remove it moderator if posted.

Following calls yesterday for the Trump campaign to "fire someone," over the Melania-speech-plagiarism debacle, Meredith McIver - the Trump staff-writer responsible for the 'passages' from Michelle Obama's speech - has offered her resignation... but Donald Trump rejected it as an "innocent mistake.". McIver's statement notes "no harm was meant" to Michelle Obama.

Stepping onto the national stage for her first big appearance of the campaign, Melania Trump, wife of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, detailed her own personal journey from Slovenia to the U.S., and called her decision to become an American “the greatest privilege on planet Earth. Introduced by her husband, Mrs. Trump vowed her husband will “never, ever, let you down”

By most accounts, Melania Trump’s speech top the GOP Convention was a success – until charges flew that she had plagiarized a speech given by Michelle Obama to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. First noted on Twitter by Jarrett Hill, a small portion of Melania’s speech bore a strong resemblance to Michelle’s. Here is a side-by-side comparison:

NOTE: I wrote the following immediately after Melania Trump's speech last night but pulled it from publication when I learned of the allegations of plagiarism by her (and/or her writer) from passages in Michelle Obama's 2008 speech. As a professional writer for decades, plagiarism does not sit well with me to say the least, even though I realize many -- including Joe Biden (more than once) and Obama himself -- have done it. This was a bush league play and does not speak well of the vetting process within the Trump campaign. Something's seriously amiss that should be investigated thoroughly....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number one. I want to take you back to me on this program May 5. May 5th on this program, I warned everybody of exactly what's happening today. When Hillary Clinton is threatened by a female, then the media and her allies hop to. They get into gear and do whatever they can to take out the opposing female. RUSH ARCHIVE: My experience with wives of conservatives and wives of Republicans -- and the Democrat Party and the media -- is that usually (there are exceptions, but usually) the media and the Democrats...

This reminds me of something. What was it now? Wait a minute... Now I remember, Orca, Romney's get out the vote app. What does that have to do with Melania's speech? BOTH were sabotaged by millennial underlings working for the campaign. I'd be interested in who wrote that speech and whats the Trump's plan for their future involvement with the campaign.

Whether or not Melania Trump cribbed a passage from a Michelle Obama speech, there is one crucial sentiment Donald Trump’s Slovenian born wife certainly didn’t copy from Obama’s — the inherent pride of being an American citizen. As the media pours over one passage in Melania Trump’s Republican National Convention speech that is similar to Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention, they overlook a key sentence that was undeniably written by Mrs. Trump and reveals all the difference in the world between these two women and their husbands.

A staffer at the Department of Justice is in hot water after sending a tweet about Melania Trump from the agency’s Twitter account. In a statement Tuesday, a Justice official said a “staffer in the public affairs office erroneously used the official Department of Justice Twitter handle to post a tweet that was intended for a personal account.” “CNN is the biggest troll of all lmao #Petty,” the staffer reportedly tweeted with a CNN story about Donald Trump’s campaign denying accusations that his wife plagiarized a 2008 speech from Michelle Obama when speaking at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland...