Donald Trump is frantically scrubbing his speech for plagiarism.

Filed in National by on July 21, 2016

From Talking Points Memo:

Donald Trump’s campaign team is reportedly checking and rechecking the speech he will give Thursday at the Republican National Convention to make sure it isn’t plagiarized, The New York Times reported. […] Trump’s chief speechwriter, Stephen Miller, told others on the campaign that the speech was original, two anonymous campaign staffers told the Times. Miller declined an interview with the Times. Despite this, at least one staffer reportedly downloaded plagiarism software to screen the text. The search came up empty, according to the Times.

Original, as in either written by Trump himself or Miller. So why would then have to scrub the speech for plagiarism, unless Trump wrote a lot of it, just as, I am convinced, he wrote Melania’s speech. Yeah, I doubt Meredith McIver is either a real person or, if actually a human, responsible for the plagiarism in Melania’s speech.

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  1. pandora says:

    He’s also trying to scrub what he said to the NYT about NATO. He’s far beyond dangerous. What he said about NATO is chilling.

    This election matters.

  2. Dave says:

    “What he said about NATO is chilling. ”

    @p,

    Yes, it is. Many people in America may be a bit ho hum about Trump and the damage he could do, but over in Europe our NATO allies are pretty worried, especially with Russia’s nationalistic attitude so visible. The biggest threat to world peace isn’t Putin, it’s Trump.

  3. Jason330 says:

    What? You mean Estonia (with a GDP comparable to Vermont’s) can’t be doing more to help NATO?

  4. cassandra_m says:

    So why would then have to scrub the speech for plagiarism

    Heard a talking head say on Monday evening that Trump was looking to Nixon’s convention speeches for inspiration.

    Which sort of provides the entire organizing theme to this circus, yes?

  5. Dem19703 says:

    @cassandra_m

    YES

  6. Charles in Charge says:

    @Dem19703…once again with tons of facts. “YES” is all he says here. Why is he allowed to comment again? I’ve never seen a post where he/she provides anything of substance. Just really gets under my skin.

  7. Dem19703 says:

    Glad to know you hang on my every word, CinC. Now you should probably get a life.

  8. Charles in Charge says:

    You still don’t get it, do you? Poor guy.

  9. Dem19703 says:

    That you are a cryptic stalker, got it.

  10. pandora says:

    Dem19703 has made a lot of substantive, on topic comments. Let’s knock off the trolling.

  11. Charles in Charge says:

    It’s time to get back to the issues. I just need to ignore this guy.

  12. Ben says:

    And yet…..