What a pair – Donald and Melania Trump!  I can see why Hillary Clinton feels threatened. What a woman – such grace and intelligence!  We haven’t seen any of that in our government for eight years.   Compare that to Hillary Clinton’s tone, especially during her NAACP speech – she sounded like a bar fly with her harsh voice.

Melania Trump, wife of Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, addresses delegates on the opening day of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH, on July 18, 2016. (Photo by Anthony Behar) 

CLEVELAND — Melania Trump earned praise for her speech Monday night at the opening night of the Republican National Committee, but her remarks almost immediately came under scrutiny when striking similarities were discovered between her speech and one delivered by Michelle Obama at the Democratic convention in 2008.

The phrases in question came when Mrs. Trump was discussing her upbringing and parents in Slovenia.

Did the Dem’s and Hillary not realize – Melania was born to parents and lived some where in the world?  And normally when you introduce yourself, you reflect on your past.  The only person who doesn’t want to reflect on her past is Hillary – educating herself as a socialist or communist.  She and Obama go way back in the Chicago suburbs.

It looks like the Democratic Potty and Hillary Clinton think they have a lock on the English language.  They are so locked into this political correctness mumbo jumbo they forget about grace and elegance.  It is like Obama who told the world that the Muslim’s invented every thing that we are using in the world in his Cairo speech.  I was really surprised when he didn’t take credit for the Muslims inventing “pork belly.”

Donald Trump’s campaign is denying any similarities between Melania Trump’s speech during the Republican convention and Michelle Obama’s speech during the Democratic convention is 2008, and instead blaming it on Hillary Clinton.

Campaign manager Paul Manafort not only denied the accusations (he called them “crazy” on CNN Tuesday morning) but he suggested that the reaction was because Hillary Clinton felt “threatened.”

“There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech. These were common words and values that she cares about her family and things like that,” Manafort said. “I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night, she knew that. To think that she would be cribbing Michelle Obama’s words is crazy.”

“I mean, this is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down. It’s not going to work,” he added.

There is no indication that Clinton had anything to do with the speech or the reaction to it. The similarities in wording were first noticed by journalist and interior designer Jarrett Hill.

And Trump’s communications adviser Jason Miller sent out a statement continuing the denial.

“In writing her beautiful speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking,” Jason Miller, Trump’s communications adviser, said in a statement. “Melania’s immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which made it such a success.”

But Trump’s wife told NBC’s Matt Lauer ahead of the speech: “I wrote it. And with as little help as possible.”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and the head of Trump’s White House transition team, appeared on NBC’s “Today” on Tuesday and said that just a fraction of the speech was similar. He said “93% of the speech is completely different than Michelle Obama’s speech.”

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said at a Bloomberg Politics breakfast if it were up to him he’d fire the speechwriter.

“I don’t blame her,” Priebus said. “Some of these things are pretty common types of themes.”

But he had a positive spin moving forward: “The distraction gets you off message a little bit this morning, but I think we’ll get back to action this afternoon,” he said.

Priebus has to put on his big boy pants and remember if he gets off message – it is because he allows it.  No one can make you do anything you don’t want to.

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