**MSNBC reporting that the speech writers report that was not the speech they gave Melania**

[SummerSnow]

So what the hell happened?



Donald did it, to distract from his racism.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Hahahaha Whaaaaaat?

I literally can't even, as the kiddies say.

[SummerSnow]

2. I know right...POPCORN!!

[RandySF]

3. Oh my God!!!! They threw his wife under the bus!!!!!!

[tallahasseedem]

6. This is about to get really good...

We should start taking bets on who added those two sections. Ivanka? Donald himself?

[Squinch]

11. Ivanka! That's IT! It makes perfect sense! You solved it!

I am loving this. I thought the RNC would make me sick, but it is making me very jolly.

[tallahasseedem]

14. Holy crap, if she really did add that then...

DAMN!!!

[63splitwindow]

29. I can see Don the Con doing it...

with the simplistic grade school rationale of copying the work of one of the "smart people."

[Sanity Claws]

4. Do we believe them?

I don't

This sounds like just another excuse. If it were true, they would have known that last night as she was talking. They would have said that first when the story exploded. Instead it is now just another excuse in a long list of excuses.

[agingdem]

23. Wait a minute...

She supposedly wrote the speech all by her little lonesome with maybe a little help from spell-check and then she gets in front of the teleprompter and reads a speech that she didn't write? Sure.

[tallahasseedem]

5. I am sooooo enjoying this...

I am watching Chuck Todd talk about this and it just keeps getting better! Except for Hugh Hewitt...what a damn hack.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. gerson is just as much a hack, with the patina, somehow, of respectability, highly

unearned, along the lines of peggy noonan

he's just less personally obnoxious than HH, who's in line to replace gingrich at the top of the self-righteous pseudointellectual

he is truly loathsome, and SO full of himself

[giftedgirl77]

7. I would say Donald did it because he's a narcissistic asshole.

[geek tragedy]

8. their inability to get a coherent story about this is making it so much worse.

instead of a simple "oops" from her or a "the speechwriter is leaving the campaign" from the campaign, we get Kremlinology.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. ahhh, geek...thought it was greek, will appreciate one of my favorite republican-applicable

words (one of the BEST words, which I have myriad!): hubris

any tragedian knows the import of that key ingredient in the hero's fall from grace

[geek tragedy]

19. indeed, nt

[Skittles]

10. I bet Melania knows

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. In retrospect, was there a sly twinkle in her eye as she uttered the infamous plagiarism?

I can't take more than a few months more of this weirdo family.

[Skittles]

16. no

her eyes are stretched too tight to twinkle

[blm]

28. heh

.

[csziggy]

30. I wasn't sure if she'd had botox or too much plastic surgery

Women like her seem way too plastic to me.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Time to polygraph the kids........

[malaise]

17. The twitterverse is having a blast

RiotWomenn @RiotWomennn

"I'd like to thank my speech writers: Copy and Paste"http://indo.ie/ktNx302o5rM #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes

bob fisher @umlautilde
Melania: "These accusations about my speech hurt not only me, but also hurt my children Sasha and Malia".

[louis-t]

22. Haaaa!!!!

[C_U_L8R]

18. They could have laid this to rest but noooooooooooooo

Now, with all their gyrations, the Trump team is
just asking for deeper inquiries. What a bungled PR job.
This is 101 stuff all around - and Team Trump is showing
the world how incompetent and untruthful they are.
Wow.

[gratuitous]

26. The convention is 96 hours of infomercial

We are now about 18 hours into this time when Trump could be selling himself, his competence, and his integrity, but instead they're trying to stanch the bleeding from this self-inflicted wound. I don't think this helps his image as a savvy leader and businessman.

[still_one]

20. bullshit. They are CYAing. That whole campaign is dishonest

[louis-t]

21. Well, it was either Hillary or Michelle

that gave those people norovirus and switched the speeches. It was only a matter of time.

[tavernier]

24. My bet is on Ivana, wife #1.

Remember her famous words? Don't get even... Get everything!

[lpbk2713]

25. Sounds like a mutiny might be under way.

I love it. Chaos in the Trump camp. Who would have guessed?

[The_Casual_Observer]

27. Looks like this story isn't going away.

It's got all the hooks the media loves.

I can dig it.