His new book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can’t Handle, will be published by Regnery on July 25 and is available for pre-order through Amazon. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. She will spend days being likened to Michelle Obama. Melania’s immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which made it such a success.” Senior communications adviser Jason Miller said: “In writing her beautiful speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking. The Trump campaign denied it borrowed lines from Michelle Obama, including: “that you work hard for what you want in life that your word is your bond…”. He talked about ‘ the world as it is‘ and ‘ the world as it should be.'” (Perhaps Mr. Alinsky wrote, in Rules for Radicals (emphasis added): “The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.” Michelle Obama said: “And Barack stood up that day, and he spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. Michelle Obama: “…the world as it should be.” In 2008, the aspiring First Lady was accused by bloggers of lifting lines for her DNC speech from Saul Alinsky. The scandal helped bring down Biden’s presidential campaign in 1988 - though Biden’s angry outburst at a reporter - “I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect” - didn’t help, either. In addition, it was discovered he had committed plagiarism while in law school. Joe Biden: “My ancestors who worked in the coal mines…”. Biden was found to have borrowed heavily from the oratory - and the biography - of British Labour Party leader Neal Kinnock, without attribution. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who responded by telling NBC News’ Meet the Press, jokingly: “We’re looking into the copyright issues here.” Clinton was accused of lifting other lines, too - and Sanders supporters responded on Twitter with the wry hashtag: #StealtheBern. John Edwards (D-NC) - she ought to have learned her lesson. Hillary Clinton: “No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.” After the Obama campaign accused Clinton of stealing lines in 2008 - a claim supplemented by The New Republic, which accused her of stealing lines from then-Sen. The left media defended Obama, saying that he had not committed plagiarism, but merely, at worst, “ poor footnoting.” Instead, it circulated examples of lines that it said Clinton herself had borrowed from Obama. The Obama campaign did not even bother to refute the claim. Barack Obama (D-IL) surpassed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, largely on the strength of his oratory, Clinton said that Obama’s record was “just words.” Obama responded in a speech whose refrain was lifted from then-Massachusetts Gov. Even Michelle Obama was accused of plagiarizing part of her own 2008 DNC speech.īarack Obama: “Don’t tell me words don’t matter.” As then-Sen. And he’s driving Trump crazy.Trump’s wife joins Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden as accused plagiarists. He’s weathered a terrible experience, and he’s one of the few people to come out of the Trump White House with head screwed on straight. What are they working on? To be announced. He showed me his phone that had a long list of recent calls from the former Mr.

Other Cohen news? He is actually in constant contact with Kanye West. It was all Melania.”Ĭohen didn’t write about this incident in his recent book, “Disloyal: A Memoir.” But he’ll expand on everything in a new book he’s finished that he thinks will be published in January. Was it McIver? “I don’t even think she did it. So last night I asked him, Did Melania plagiarize Michelle Obama? “Yes! She absolutely did!” Cohen said.

He picked up his own phone, was absolutely gracious, and put me back through to her. When I called the Trump Org in 2016 and asked to speak to her, McIver said she would if I got Cohen’s approval. If you click on that link, you’ll see that back in July 2016 I actually drove over to her house in suburban Connecticut and spoke to her sister. The culprit was identified as Trump Org exec Meredith McIver. The morning after Melania’s speech, everyone wanted to know who wrote her speech.

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