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Now Donald Trump Jr lifted some lines!!!! Check it out.
As this story has unfolded, it appears that the author of a Spring article in the American Conservative, Frank Buckley, also helped Don Jr. write his speech. So Buckley was in essence recycling his own anecdote into a speech he was helping write for Don Jr. That is certainly irregular for a speech writer. But there’s no injured party since it’s Buckley reusing something presumably he wrote himself. What’s amazing about this is how exactly, after last night, did either Trump or Buckley or really anyone else involved think it might be a good idea to remove this passage from the speech?
The deeper story here is that Melania and Don Jr have seriously upped the ante for Trump on who he’ll plagiarize Thursday evening.
Chris Christie tells donors he and Donald Trump have a plan to purge Obama era appointees and Democrats from the federal workforce.
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.”
Donald Trump Jr: “We are going to put Americans first, all Americans, not a special class of crony elites at the top of the heap.”
So we’ve got this evening’s version of “lock her up.”
Christie earlier only barely resisted taking up the “lock her up” chant.
“Betrayer.”
One thing I’m watching for tonight is how many speakers call for Hillary Clinton to be imprisoned or lead crowd chants to that effect.