Spox Defends Melania Trump Plagiarism: FLOTUS Didn’t Invent English! (VIDEO)

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A spokeswoman for Donald Trump’s campaign argued Tuesday that Melania Trump couldn’t have plagiarized her Monday night GOP convention speech from First Lady Michelle Obama because Obama didn’t invent the English language.

In an interview on the street with The Hill, national spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said Melania Trump’s remarks were indicative of Republican values and rejected the idea that part of her speech was lifted from Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention address.

“These are values, Republican values by the way, of hard work, determination, family values, dedication and respect, and that’s Melania Trump,” Pierson told The Hill. “This concept that Michelle Obama invented the English language is absurd.”

Pierson continued to brush off the notion that these were ideas unique to Obama and doubled-down on the Trumps’ focus on family values.

“She was definitely talking about her family and her parents and the values that she taught, which, ironically, are the same values that many of us are taught growing up,” she told The Hill.

Pierson went on to say that if anything, Trump’s speech was similar to one former First Lady Laura Bush gave in 2004.

Watch below via The Hill:

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  1. So now they have gone to denying that there is such a thing as plagiarism. All over the map with the reasons.

  2. “These are values, Republican values by the way, of hard work,
    determination, family values, dedication and respect, and that’s Melania
    Trump,” Pierson told The Hill. “This concept that Michelle Obama
    invented the English language is absurd.”

    (((face palm)))

  3. The fact that they could have ended this last night by admitting someone made a mistake but instead chose to go this route is mindblowing. Did Trump himself suggest those passages or what? Is that the reason so many reasonably smart people - Carson, Christie (sometimes) are willing to cover it up with BS arguments?

  4. Well, we can agree that our First Lady didn’t invent the English language. Jesus did.

  5. Pierson has no problem with stealing a few bits here and there, why be such a prissy ?

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