We have more information about just what happened with Melania Trump’s speech. It seems that it was almost entirely the work of Melania and Donald’s recent ghostwriter who’s penned books like “Donald J. Trump: Think Like a Champion”, “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire” and “Trump: How to Get Rich.”
From the Times …
It was Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, who commissioned the speech from Mr. Scully and Mr. McConnell — and praised their draft. But Ms. Trump decided to revise it, and at one point she turned to a trusted hand: Meredith McIver, a New York City-based former ballet dancer and English major who has worked on some of Mr. Trump’s books, including “Think Like a Billionaire.” It was not clear how much of a hand Ms. McIver had in the final product, and she did not respond to an email on Tuesday.
Research for the speech, it seems, drew them to the previous convention speeches delivered by candidates’ spouses.
The Trump campaign declined to say who or how many senior campaign officials read or reviewed the speech. But when Ms. Trump and her staff had finished revising the speech, virtually all that remained from the original was an introduction and a passage that included the phrase “a national campaign like no other.”
As noted earlier, the two elite GOP speechwriters who were commissioned to write the speech were exonerated from any role in the plagiarism. Melania Trump received the speech but tore it up (figuratively speaking) and rewrote it from scratch with McIver.
We don’t have definitive word yet. But ‘Trump’s Razor’ seems to be holding up pretty well.
