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From The Reporter’s Notebook
On Monday evening, Donald Trump’s wife Melania appeared to lift significant portions of her prime time convention speech from remarks delivered by now-First Lady Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention where her husband Barack Obama was first nominated for President, TPM’s Esme Cribb reported. Before delivering her remarks, Melania Trump told NBC’s Matt Lauer that she had only read the speech over once on the plane: “And that’s all, because I wrote it with a little help as possible.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “We’re still trying to piece together just what happened. But it seems at least that convention planners, seeing that the anti-Trump forces had gathered enough signatures to force an embarrassing vote, simply ditched the rules and moved on. We don’t know that happened. The question turns on the RNC organizers’ claim that three states pulled out of the demand at the last moment. (‘States’ in theory could change their mind with a small number of delegates switching positions.) The RNC folks just asserted that without saying just how that happened or who had done what.”
Say What?!
“But you just look at the body language and there’s something going on. Look, there’s something going on.”
– Trump repeated the phrase “there’s something going on” five times during an interview about the fatal shootings in Baton Rouge.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I think any effect it might have would be overrated. We know nothing sways his base. So if this came during the primaries, it’d be brushed off by his base as ‘just another hack liberal media type trying to character assassinate the great Donald Trump.’ As for the general, I think it’s timed right (maybe too early if anything), but I just don’t know if this is going to be the thing that changes too many people’s minds.”
Related: The ghostwriter behind Donald Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” said that, if he could, he would rename it “The Sociopath.”
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