Trump's campaign initially responded that Mrs. In the first lady's 2008 speech, she said, "Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values and to pass them onto the next generation, because we want our children - and all children in this nation - to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them." "Because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them." "We need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow," Mrs. Trump's speech addressed her attempts to instill those values in her son. Christie said on NBC's "Today" show that the women "expressed some common thoughts." He did not explain how he arrived at the 93 percent figure.Īnother passage in Mrs. Chris Christie tried to tamp down the controversy, saying "93 percent of the speech is completely different" from the speech Mrs. Priebus told reporters at a Bloomberg breakfast that the controversy was a "distraction" but said he expected the convention to get back on message Tuesday.Īsked about Priebus' comments, Manafort told the AP, "Frankly, if I knew somebody did it I would fire them too." Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said he would "probably" fire his speechwriters if they lifted passages from someone else's remarks. Obama's 2008 speech in Denver, she said: "And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: like, you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, that you do what you say you're going to do, that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them." And let people decide which of those two first spouses you want." And I'll be glad to match our first spouse against Bill Clinton's first spouse next week. Queen takes issue with Trump's use of 'We Are The Champions' Obama said he should have credited Patrick, the Massachusetts governor and a friend, who said he willingly shared the lines with Obama's speechwriters and wanted no credit.Īs convention nears, Delaware GOP delegates back Trump Gingrich said Biden dropped out of the 1988 presidential race "for stealing entire speeches from a British labor leader" and that Obama "copied chunks out of Deval Patrick's speeches."īiden ended his presidential bid amid allegations that he plagiarized material from a British politician in a speech at the Iowa State Fair in 1987, calling his failure to attribute the material an oversight. The passages in question focused on lessons that Trump's wife says she learned from her parents and the relevance of their lessons in her experience as a mother. Trump's star turn at the Republican National Convention Monday night captivated a GOP crowd. "Ninety-nine percent of that speech talked about her being an immigrant and love of country and love of family and everything else." "There were a few words on it, but they're not words that were unique words," he told The Associated Press. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort insisted no mistakes had been made with the speech and said the issue was "totally blown out of proportion." The Trump campaign dismissed criticism that Trump directly lifted two passages nearly word-for-word from the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention, calling the complaints "just absurd." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday called plagiarism charges against Melania Trump for her Republican National Convention speech "baloney” and pointed to similar charges against Vice President Joe Biden.
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