Posted on 07/20/2016 7:12:25 AM PDT by shortstop
I'd fire him.
If somebody derailed my convention and embarrassed my wife, I'd fire him.
Not the speechwriter.
The campaign manager.
This situation in which Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention included two plagiarized sections is so needless and destructive, it is such a self-inflicted wound, that you almost wonder if it was sabotage.
It is easier to imagine someone wanting to torpedo the Trump campaign than it is to think that anyone getting paid to write would be so stupid and unethical as to steal someone else's words.
Also, to be honest, it's astounding to think that a team of people hired to write a speech about a woman's admiration of her husband would need to read much less steal another person's thoughts on the subject.
For that point, why does it take a team of people to express one person's thoughts?
And how is it that something that would get a 10th-grader flunked in English class ends up being in the repertoire of a presidential campaign?
I'm flabbergasted.
And I'm not some Democrat shill. I'm a Republican. I've been on the Trump train since Iowa. I'm going to vote for Donald Trump in November and I'm going to encourage others to do the same. I've even offered my services as a speech writer to someone speaking at the convention.
And this dumbfounds even me.
It's as if the Clinton campaign hacked the computers and inserted a couple of paragraphs as a poison pill.
But that's not what happened.
The possible future first lady of the United States seems to have misrepresented the primary authorship of her speech in an interview with Matt Lauer, and after plagiarism popped up in her speech, the campaign denied its existence and said that the criticisms were nothing more than partisan sniping.
Un-frigging-believable.
The impact is to brand Melania Trump as a joke in the public mind. Look for a trending hashtag. That stain won't wash away anytime soon. The matter also took an entire day of the convention -- 25 percent of the whole -- and made it about this self-inflected wound. When folks woke up Tuesday morning, they didn't hear about Rudy Giuliani's tremendously provocative speech, or Marcus Latrell's touching words, or even the tears of a woman who blames her son's death in Benghazi on Hillary Clinton. The news wasn't about securing our shores or patrolling our streets, it wasn't about taking care of veterans or fighting terrorists, it was about plagiarism.
It was an embarrassment and a distraction.
The party-approved campaign manager, the almost creepy guy with the lounge-lizard affect, had screwed the pooch. This is the big game, this is the moment of opportunity, and somebody put on a suicide vest. It is just incredible.
It continues the narrative of Trump being a tone-deaf screwup. It prompts new questions about Trump's ability to manage and lead. If you can't have stability in your campaign, if you can't have consistent and appropriate performance in your operation, how the hell are you going to run the country? You say you're great at running golf courses and wineries, but what about the relatively simpler process of keeping a campaign on track?
Manafort should go.
The professional-politician hack who Trump brought on to satisfy the party bosses who hate him. He should go. It was his watch, it was his job, and he screwed the pooch.
So he should go.
Before the next bomb on this snake-bit campaign is dropped.
Chill! As Ben Carson stated Isn’t it nice that Mrs Trump and Mrs Wookie Grew up with the same morality and goals in life.
The leftist media would have found something to make the news of the day just so they wouldn’t have to mention Rudy’s speech or Clarke’s speech.
It was embarrassing and unfortunate.
It is also time to shut up about it.
Gotta agree with this article. Heads must roll for the embarrassment and incompetence.
That kind of plagiarism of secret national security information is much worse than anything the Trump family could have done
Who the heck are these people that care about this? I mean you have to be the dumbest of the swing voters to let this influence how you vote, it has to be a tiny tiny % of the absolute stupidest voters.
Speeches by spouses are dumb anyhow. I mean come on.
FReegards
‘And I don’t believe anyone who would call for Manafort to be fired is a true Trump supporter. That would be political suicide.’
This.
I am convinced the speech was sabotaged too, most likely by an inside contributor to the speech. Should be fired and sued.
Why is everyone falling for the MSM soap opera? No one cares about this.
So you want to play straight into the corrupt, leftist media’s hands? They spent all day feverishly making a mountain out of a molehill ***in hopes*** of provoking a reaction. Such a reaction would give the story legs right through Nov.
Fortunately Trump and Manafort are too smart to fall for this idiotic trap. They’ll do nothing, which is the quickest way to kill this inane tempest in a teapot.
That being said, I was a bit surprised to read that Trump Is considered to be a “tone deaf screw-up.” How can anyone who blew away the competition In the primaries be considered a screw-up. The author must have Trump confused with Jeb.
Another point...who remembers what was said in a speech 8 years ago. Who discovered the plagiarism - he found it pretty fast...conveniently fast.
Finally, it is known at this point who wrote the part of the speech that lifted from the wookie speech. I'm sure that person will be made to pay for their little prank.
“I’m very convinced that the speech was sabotaged.”
I agree. My first thought was why would Matt Lauer ask her if she wrote the speech. Strange question IMO.
It was a set-up from the beginning coming from Cruz working with the globalist/NWO elites.
Go get ‘em Donald!
There were 3 occasions yesterday where I heard the phrase “My word is my bond”. Only once had it anything to do to politics. MOUNTAIN OUT OF MOLE HILL
Reminds me of the Democrat who sabotaged Sara Palin, getting her expensive dresses and bragging about the price to make her “frugal housewife turned politician” story look fake, then threw the dresses in trash bags and advertised that they were thrown away, to create class envy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Never Trump movement’s action was to get a campaign manager assigned to Trump to sabotage him.
It is soap opera fluff that looks good in headlines for the official narrative “Trump is bad” while avoiding serious issues like Clinton’s violations of top secret data handling.
Like the New York Times putting a Kardashian / Swift Twitter feud front and center but ignoring a secular coup in Turkey.
“”Melania apparently didn’t graduate from college””
are you kidding me, she speaks 4 languages and runs her own, very successful company!
I’m sorry, I didn’t graduate from college either, so maybe I’m too stupid to understand
It looks that way. In the Lauer interview, you can see that she is proud of her role in the speech-writing. It is also the only explanation for why heads haven’t rolled.
You have to imagine that the candidate encouraged his wife to put her own stamp on the submitted draft from the authors of Palin’s convention masterpiece.
It could be important.
He11, if you're REALLY good at plagiarism, you could wind up being vice-president or something.
The baying mobs, focusing on this in order to suck the focus off Giuliani’s very good speech, etc. Now who would do that?? Libs?? It’s exactly what they did after Sarah Palin’s TERRIFIC acceptance speech - ‘And when the styrofoam columns are backstage again ....’ Demonize, mock, bring down any THREAT. Hmm, they see DJT and Mrs. Trump as threats? Who would have thought??
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