Donald Trump on Melania's Speech [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]

ABC News ^ | 7/20/2016 | George Stephanopoulos

[SERKIT]

Is that a real Triumph quote, or did you make it up? Priceless!

That was NOT a direct quote from the puppet. But fitting....

[Twinkie]

The Democrats only WISH Michelle had given the speech that
Melania gave. Instead, Michelle reminded us of what a
horrible country this was & how Hussein being elected was
the first time in her life she had been proud of America.
How she was snubbed in college (sob, sob) and blah . . blah.
(Guess Mooch got back at all those whitey snobs with all her
exotic vacations, huh? AND made THEM pay for it!
Melania Trump’s speech was the POLAR OPPOSITE of the bitter,
self-important lecture that Mooch threw at us.

[originalbuckeye]

If I were Trump, I would look into the connection with the registered democrat who helped Melania with her speech and Jarret Hill, the blogger who came almost immediately with the similarities. Are they friends? How could the blogger have made the connection so quickly? Trump needs to clean house now. Get rid of those who will sabotage his candidacy. NOW.

[GilGil]

He may not clean house now, but it will be down the line like Corey.

[GoKnow]

He also blamed her in a deposition for something to do with his book.
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Interesting. I’d like to know the source of that info.

The woman is then a writer who has helped pen books for the Trump org for many years. She is apparently, then, not a speech writer. Big difference. Totally unprofessional to copy verbatim phrases from one speech to use as filler for another speech. She said Melania fed her those phrases and then she absentmindedly inserted them into the new speech? Huh? Really? Then Melania didn’t recognize those same favorite phrases when she went about practicing the delivery over and over? Um, well, what can one say? We live and learn and obviously Melania was unaware of what is allowable and what isn’t which is why she needed better guidance.

It’s a tempest in a teapot. for sure. But I will bet Melania is getting a new savvy speech writer very soon. And this woman will go back to writing books ... at least for a while. Trump didn’t want to fire her because 1) she’s been there so long apparently doing good things and..2) he realizes she never should have been given that job in the first place. Not her fault and she shouldn’t have to pay for it while also protecting Melania. He’s a really good man. And the way he’s been able to diffuse this mess — oops she goofed, it happens! — shows extraordinary confidence and humanity.

[archy]

That was NOT a direct quote from the puppet. But fitting....

Okay, so they'll pitch a speechrewriter under the bus [maybe] And hire a new one, maybe. I'd like to throw my hat into the ring, and offer the following as an example of what I can do for the Trump campaign effort:

1: Tiffany Trump steps out onto the stage wearing an Abraham Lincoln stovepipe hat and fake beard, and takes her position behind a podium.

She begins her speech: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal....

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great.... [SFX] Her phone rings. She takes it out and looks at it:

It's Pokémon! He's here, right there on the stage! I gotta catch him! Bye....