First Lady Michelle Obama delivered an unusually personal speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, expressing her enthusiastic support for former First Lady Hillary Clinton while deriding Republican candidate Donald Trump without ever uttering his name. "Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great," she said in a pointed reference to Trump's campaign slogan. "This, right now, is the greatest country on earth." Obama also got personal during the speech, speaking candidly about daughters Malia and Sasha, and how she and the president have coached them to remain above the fray while facing criticism. "We don't stoop to their level.
- 7/26/2016
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd and Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos Donald Trump is not concerned about the firestorm that ensued after wife Melania appeared to plagiarize portions of a speech by Michelle Obama in her own address on Monday at the Republican National Convention. In an interview with Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos, the Republican presidential nominee shared that Melania is adapting well to the "different world" in the media spotlight. "She handles it well. She's a strong woman, she's a good woman," he said. "I thought she made an incredible speech, I thought she made a beautiful speech. She had that hall,...
- 7/21/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos Donald Trump is not concerned about the firestorm that ensued after wife Melania appeared to plagiarize portions of a speech by Michelle Obama in her own address on Monday at the Republican National Convention. In an interview with Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos, the Republican presidential nominee shared that Melania is adapting well to the "different world" in the media spotlight. "She handles it well. She's a strong woman, she's a good woman," he said. "I thought she made an incredible speech, I thought she made a beautiful speech. She had that hall,...
- 7/21/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
Meredith McIver has taken the fall in the plagiarism scandal surrounding the Rnc speech given by Melania Trump. But she also seems to have fallen off the face of the earth, as far as the Twitterati are concerned. Since news broke Wednesday that Trump staff writer McIver is taking the blame for the speech — which seemed to crib heavily from a speech given by First Lady Michelle Obama in 2008 — Twitter users have busied themselves with the weighty question: Does McIver actually exist? Also Read: Melania Trump's Speechwriter Takes Blame for Plagiarism “Serious question: has any news outlet seen or interviewed.
- 7/20/2016
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Meredith McIver, who describes herself as an “in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization,” has taken the fall for the section of Melania Trump‘s Republican National Convention speech that plagiarized Michelle Obama‘s 2008 DNC speech. Meredith McIver On Melania Trump’s Speech McIver released a statement Wednesday – two days after the now-infamous speech was delivered […]
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- 7/20/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Nearly two full days after Melania Trump delivered her keynote speech at the Rnc, portions of which were discovered to have been taken from a speech Michelle Obama delivered at the DNC in 2008 – and after a full day of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort repeatedly insisted there was nothing to see here because no plagiarism was committed – Trump Org. staffer Meredith McIver has issued a statement saying the fault was hers and that passages from Obama’s speech were in…...
- 7/20/2016
- Deadline TV
A writer who said she worked with Melania Trump on her Republican convention speech is taking responsibility for using passages from First Lady Michelle Obama's address at the 2008 Democratic convention. In a statement released by the Trump campaign on Wednesday, Meredith McIver, described as "an in-house staff writer from the Trump Organization," explains that Donald Trump's wife, in a phone call, read her "passages from Mrs. Obama's speech as examples" of inspiration for the would-be first lady's own address at the Rnc on Monday night. "I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the...
- 7/20/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
A writer who said she worked with Melania Trump on her Republican convention speech is taking responsibility for using passages from First Lady Michelle Obama's address at the 2008 Democratic convention. In a statement released by the Trump campaign on Wednesday, Meredith McIver, described as "an in-house staff writer from the Trump Organization," explains that Donald Trump's wife, in a phone call, read her "passages from Mrs. Obama's speech as examples" of inspiration for the would-be first lady's own address at the Rnc on Tuesday night. "I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the...
- 7/20/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Melania Trump's speechwriter is stepping forward to take the blame for plagiarizing Michelle Obama's 2008 speech. Meredith McIver says the almost word-for-word lifting happened after Melania gave her passages, over the phone, from Michelle's speech. McIver says she "wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech." As we first reported on Tuesday's "TMZ Live" ... Melania likes the First Lady and had watched some...
- 7/20/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
A speechwriter for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has accepted blame for the controversy surrounding his wife, Melania’s, speech Monday night at the Republican National Convention. Meredith McIver, an in-house staff writer with the Trump organization, released a statement Wednesday morning accepting blame for the address, which drew accusations of plagiarism for its resemblance to a speech delivered by Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. “My name is Meredith McIver and I’m an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization,” McIver said in a statement. “Yesterday, I offered my resignation to Mr. Trump and the Trump family,...
- 7/20/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Did Melania Trump take her Republican National Convention speech into her own hands? Melania, 46, has been bombarded with accusations that she plagiarized Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention address in her speech on Monday. Although husband Donald Trump's campaign has taken to finger-pointing (Donald and his team have blamed speechwriters and even Hillary Clinton for the incident), new reports suggests the alleged cribbing may have been the former model's own doing. Melania's original address did not include the portion that bears striking similarities to Obama's speech, according to NBC News. And documents and emails obtained by NBC reportedly indicate...
- 7/20/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Did Melania Trump take her Republican National Convention speech into her own hands? Melania, 46, has been bombarded with accusations that she plagiarized Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention address in her speech on Monday. Although husband Donald Trump's campaign has taken to finger-pointing (Donald and his team have blamed speechwriters and even Hillary Clinton for the incident), new reports suggests the alleged cribbing may have been the former model's own doing. Melania's original address did not include the portion that bears striking similarities to Obama's speech, according to NBC News. And documents and emails obtained by NBC reportedly indicate...
- 7/20/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
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