deep
Blue Crack Addict
or, god help us all, Dick Cheney
The in-house staff writer did it.
After more than two days of evasion, denials and contradictory explanations, the Trump campaign released a statement Wednesday – "to whom it may concern" – ascribing the plagiarized passages in Melanie Trump's convention speech to a scribe working for his corporate operation.
"In working with Melania Trump on her recent first lady speech, we discussed many people who inspired her and messages she wanted to share with the American people,” said Meredith McIver, who described herself as a longtime and admirer of the Trump family. “A person she always liked is Michelle Obama.”
By McIver’s account, Melania Trump read her some passages from Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic convention and they inadvertently made their way into the final draft that she delivered Monday at the GOP’s gathering in Cleveland.
“This was my mistake and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as Mrs. Obama,” McIver said. “No harm was meant.”
She said she offered her resignation to Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, as well as his family, but it was rejected. “Mr. Trump told me that people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow these experiences.”
Oh, so now they throw the speech writer under the bus but in a way where Trump looks compassionate for rejecting her resignation.
*puke
*** WEDNESDAY ***
[Wednesday, July 20, 2016/ 7:20 PM EDT]
Make America First Again
Convention Called to Order
Reince Priebus
Chair, Republican National Committee
Presentation of the Colors
Local Boy Scout Troop
Pledge of Allegiance
Margo Hudson
Graduate, Seeds of Literacy
The National Anthem
Abby Paskvan
Bowling Green, OH
Invocation
Nathan Johnson
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Remarks
Laura Ingraham
Conservative Political Commentator
Video
The Trump We Know
Remarks
Phil Ruffin
Businessman
Remarks
The Hon. Pam Bondi
Attorney General
Video
Apollo 11 Anniversary
Remarks
Col. Eileen Collins, Ret.
First Female Commander, U.S. Space Shuttle
Video
The Plan is Real
Remarks
Michelle Van Etten
Women In Business For Trump
Remarks
The Hon. Ralph Alvarado, Jr.
State Senator
Remarks
Darrell Scott
Senior Pastor, New Spirit Revival Center Ministries
Remarks
Harold Hamm
CEO, Continental Resources
Remarks
The Hon. Scott Walker
Governor
Video
Lynne Patton – The Trump Family I Know
Remarks
Lynne Patton
The Eric Trump Foundation
Video
Senator Marco Rubio
Remarks
The Hon. Ted Cruz
U.S. Senator
Video
My Father, Donald Trump
Remarks
Eric Trump
Remarks
The Hon. Newt Gingrich & Callista Gingrich
Former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
Remarks
The Hon. Mike Pence
Vice Presidential Nominee and Governor
Benediction
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of
America and Exarch of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
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More polls regularly coming in showing Trump ahead nationally and closing in on key swing states. If he wins, we all have the RegisteredDems4Lyfe to thank for choosing such a terrible candidate.
Holy shit. So Pence will be running things. awesome.
Also, Pence is the one GOP Governor that did not sign the bias religions liberty exceptions laws that all the GOP State legislators have passed.
More polls regularly coming in showing Trump ahead nationally and closing in on key swing states. If he wins, we all have the RegisteredDems4Lyfe to thank for choosing such a terrible candidate.
That's a very misleading reading of Pence's stance on social issues. Pence DID in fact sign a piece of legislation into law that provided the religious liberty exemption. He caved shortly after the fact and took away the law's provision that would have allowed businesses to deny services based on religious beliefs, but he's no friend to the LGBT community (to put it mildly).
Also, Chris Christie is clearly vying for the attorney general slot. And has stated in recent interviews that Trump would seek new legislation that would allow him to purge the government of all Obama appointees.
Think about that for a second.
Yes. Very strange misunderstanding on Deep's part. Pence is about as anti-gay as governors get.
One also almost gets the sense that BMP wants Trump to win.
Under pressure, and following a disastrous interview on ABC in which Pence struggled to answer questions about whether the bill was discriminatory, he agreed to a legislative fix that made clear that businesses couldn’t discriminate against people on the basis of, among other things, sexual orientation. But that, in turn, enraged social conservatives who felt that the protections they wanted were gone again.
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He would also try to roll back all the legalized weed in the states that have it.
Ted Cruz will run in 2020,
regardless of who is in the Whitehouse
The Revolutionary Communist Party goes to the convention to burn a large American flag chanting, "Nothing matters but revolution!"
class act, these find young people.
He will challenge a President Trump as Reagan did Pres Ford in 76 and as Ted Kennedy did Pres Carter in 80. Both bad for them and their party.this is for certain.
interestingly, i used to be pretty confident that realclearpolitics would include all major polling outfits. But I noticed last week, they didn't include 2 national polls that had Clinton up 9 and 13...
hmmmm...
Kasich should be dead in GOP, putting out VP story same day Pense seeks to weaken Trump. Cruz needs to go full Trump tonight if he wants to be in good position should Hillary win. If he falters, Rubio has chance of to be heir apparent. If Rubio is smart he goes full Trump, that way he keeps his base and can co-opt Trumps, which most assumed would slide over to Cruz. Rubio could be the future if he can find a way to retain Trumps populace base.
Unfortunately, that recent NBC News poll posted on RCP had nearly 9,500 registered voters (compared to the usual 1,000) and had a margin of error of only 1.4. Clinton lead by a single point.
It's a little early to go all Chicken Little on us, don't you think?