Paul Manafort on plagiarism allegation: Plagiarized? "Of course not" "These are common words."

[Solly Mack]

Manafort tells me the Trump team knew Melania Trump's speech would be the most scrutinized of the convention. Plagiarized? "Of course not".

Just talked to Paul Manafort. He says there was no plagiarism, the lines from Melania Trump's speech weren't lifted.


Manafort to me on plagiarism allegation: "These are common words."

See? She didn't plagiarize. She merely used the same common words in the exact same order as Michelle Obama. It could have happened to anyone. (Snort)

I am typing this using common words. See is a common word. Spot is a common word. Run is a common word.

See Spot. See Spot run. Run, Spot, run. <~~ I typed that using common words. Any similarity to the (Sally) Dick and Jane books is purely coincidental.

Or not.

"Out, damned spot"

[Gothmog]

1. Melania was caught redhanded and this is the best that they GOP can do to defend her

[Solly Mack]

2. Sadly, yes.

They will probably "clarify" their response as the day goes on.

[deminks]

3. Even Morning Jerk laughed at this one. nt

[Solly Mack]

5. Everyone should laugh at the excuse.

[Botany]

4. Manafort, "These are common words."

[Solly Mack]

7. I couldn't believe they went with something so lame.

I expected bombastic denial and got a balloon losing air instead.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Three word rule applies

The words can all be as common as dirt, but if you string more than three of them together - consecutively - you"ve got plagiarism.

[Solly Mack]

9. I'm sure we'll get a fuller denial later in the day.

They have to look up some more common words first.

[C_U_L8R]

8. They are inviting ridicule. Heaps of it.

What a PR disaster. For them.
Every questionable thing they say now gets extra scrutiny
and just adds power to the Phony Trump positioning.

[Solly Mack]

19. They'll blame everyone else.

[C_U_L8R]

21. They need to google plagiarism

They'd fail or be fired anywhere else

[BlueMTexpat]

10. And per Melania -

she wrote it herself.

[Solly Mack]

18. Yep.

lol

[bullimiami]

11. Come on. She didn't write it.

And after the round of denials, attacks and more denials someone will probably be " fired".

[Solly Mack]

17. Probably.

That could be fun too.

[Motley13]

12. I use these words all the time

four

score

and

seven

years

ago

No one would suspect plagiarism if I used them in that order.

[Solly Mack]

14. I think Melania wrote that too.

[d_r]

13. Our local news comments

Are full of people saying the same thing, and worse. It is amazing.

[Solly Mack]

15. Should be fun to watch them bend over backwards to explain it away.

[C_U_L8R]

22. No one likes a cheat

Especially an obnoxious cheat.

[Vinca]

16. And what are the odds so many of these "common words" would line up in the same fashion

for 2 speeches? Trump's been in the casino business. They ought to have an idea of the odds.

[Solly Mack]

20. I know, right?

Such a lame excuse.

[Thrill]

23. The old common words argument

lol

[Solly Mack]

25. lololol

Yep

[Solly Mack]

24. The campaign is blaming Melania Trump and saying she added those words

and they didn't know until it was over.

Not sure if this message was Trump approved or not, but Manafort is now saying Melania did it - and not speech writers or the staff - and they didn't know she had added to the prepared speech.

So that's excuse number 2 so far.

[spanone]

26. when caught red-handed....double down

[Solly Mack]

27. And they did.