{"id":84479,"date":"2016-07-19T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=84479"},"modified":"2016-07-19T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:27:14","slug":"melania-trump-speech-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/melania-trump-speech-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump Accused of Plagiarizing Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melania Trump\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2016\/07\/18\/melania-trump-speech-republican-national-convention\/87241180\/\" target=\"_blank\">opened the\u00a0RNC<\/a>\u00a0and spoke\u00a0on behalf of her husband, Donald Trump, to\u00a0share\u00a0how she believes he will lead America. It was a first for Melania as she&#8217;s been in the shadows for a majority of the campaign &#8212; Ivanka, Donald&#8217;s daughter, has been playing the role of his right hand woman.<\/p>\n<p>The potential First Lady\u00a0initially\u00a0received praise for her address, until people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shaunking\/photos\/a.799605230078397.1073741828.799539910084929\/1091577537547830\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">noticed<\/a>\u00a0that her speech bore striking similarities to Michelle Obama&#8217;s speech at the\u00a0Democratic National Convention in 2008. Check out the side by side comparison below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RcbiGsDMmCM\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jason Miller, campaign spokesman for Trump, praised the speech despite the scrutiny:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0In writing her beautiful speech, Melania\u2019s team of writers took notes on her life\u2019s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking. Melania\u2019s immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which made it a success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump campaign co-chairman, Sam Clovis, said in an interview with MSNBC, &#8220;I\u2019m sure what happened is the person who was helping write this plucked something in there and unfortunate oversight and certainly Melania didn\u2019t have anything to do with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the speech? Weigh in on the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Melania Trump\u00a0opened the\u00a0RNC\u00a0and spoke\u00a0on behalf of her husband, Donald Trump, to\u00a0share\u00a0how she believes he will ...","author":422344,"featured_media":84486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/19110617\/shutterstock_448133332-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/19110617\/shutterstock_448133332.jpg","formated_date":"July 19, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#32ffc1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}