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Melania Trump's Plagiarism Confirms Your Fears
Each gaffe like this proves that Donald Trump is unfit to run for president, much less to lead the country.
The last people you'd want as the first couple.
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At first after the convention broke for the night on Monday, everyone on the cable news networks agreed that Melania Trump’s speech was good. An hour later everyone was talking about how much her apparent plagiarism from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech would hurt the Trump campaign.
This morning Trump supporters are offering the only defense they can: that these sentiments about the value of hard work are so anodyne that anyone could have uttered them, that they could have been original to both speakers because they weren't particularly original thoughts to begin with.