Trump’s Razor Vindicated!

Donald Trump and Melania Trump Republican National Convention, Cleveland, USA - 18 Jul 2016 (Rex Features via AP Images)
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We now have a sacrificial lamb. A Trump Org staffer who currently ghost writes Trump’s books worked with Melania on the speech after Melania rejected the speech written for her by two top GOP speechwriters. Meredith McIver is taking the blame for the plagiarism. But when you read the explanation, Melania herself is extremely tightly bound up with how it all happened. She apparently really liked those passages from Michelle Obama’s speech and read them to McIver over the phone as stuff she’d like to include in the speech. Here’s the details.

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