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Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:21 PM Jul 2016

This Plagiarism Scandal Could Have Been Easy to Deal with From an Experienced Team

Here is what I figure, I'm just a simple country doctor in the deep south without any fancy political experience or big city learnin' but it only took me about 5 minutes this morning to figure out exactly how Trump's campaign should have handled this. All they had to say was:

"Melena was looking to be as effective as Michelle Obama's 8 years ago and was practicing with different line's from the First Lady's speech to find inspiration but in the excitement of the convention, used a draft that failed to take these lines out."

There, see, total bullshit but easy to think of and admits guilt without actually admitting guilt. Most would have given her the benefit of the doubt. She seems shy and honest.

Instead they went with several bizarre explanations and are still flopping around like a fish on land.

1. "Its not plagiarized! There is no evidence of it!"

2. "The lines are similar but every first lady has used those lines"

3. "They are the same lines but she delivered them better!"

4. "Its only a little bit of plagiarism"

5. "Its Hillary's fault!"


Again, I have zero experience in politics or communications and I think my explanation is 10,000x better than anything Trump's entire campaign and the RNC came up with in 12 hours. I think this just shows how incompetent and egotistical their campaign really is. He has surrounded himself by complete morons who clearly have no clue what they are doing.

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This Plagiarism Scandal Could Have Been Easy to Deal with From an Experienced Team (Original Post) Doctor Jack Jul 2016 OP
+1, pretty much an experienced team would've have more character which the GOP has NONE !!! uponit7771 Jul 2016 #1
AMEN! chillfactor Jul 2016 #2
"to be as effective as Michelle Obama's 8 years ago" LiberalLovinLug Jul 2016 #3
Well, way too late to put out this fire Doctor Jack Jul 2016 #4
It has gone from being a train wreck to heading off a cliff, all in the KingCharlemagne Jul 2016 #5
Trump is a Billionaire... SaschaHM Jul 2016 #6
No, he's not (n/t) PJMcK Jul 2016 #7
6. Michelle stole it from My Little Pony. Nt Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2016 #8
The Trump campaign is amateurish PJMcK Jul 2016 #9
Dysfunctional people don't think clearly and find it hard to be/act sane . Her Sister Jul 2016 #10

chillfactor

(7,573 posts)
2. AMEN!
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:26 PM
Jul 2016

I think a Hillary team could handle it much better if it happened then these rethug idiots have.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,168 posts)
3. "to be as effective as Michelle Obama's 8 years ago"
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:48 PM
Jul 2016

No, I don't think they could have ever had the stomach to publicly bestow to Michelle even a hint of competence.

But yeah, they could have reacted better. Even to say, without mentioning how "effective" Michelle speaks, that Melania did a lot of research into previous major party leader spouses and first lady speeches. And that she isn't a professional speech writer and together with her lack of English language skills, she 'may' not have been as careful as she should have been with how she wrote and presented her speech in sharing thoughts that she also strongly agreed with personally. And that she never ever meant to plagiarize at all!

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
5. It has gone from being a train wreck to heading off a cliff, all in the
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:49 PM
Jul 2016

space of 24-36 hours. Really awe-inspiring, but not in a good way.

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
6. Trump is a Billionaire...
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:51 PM
Jul 2016

Find someone that is willing to ruin their speech writing reputation for 2-3 mil and send them on their way. Problem solved.

PJMcK

(22,022 posts)
9. The Trump campaign is amateurish
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:34 PM
Jul 2016

Donald Trump has no idea of how to run a national political campaign. And he's a poor manager as demonstrated by the mishandling of this screw-up. Your solution, Doctor Jack, is far better than what these clowns have done!

My own idea is similar. Mrs. Trump should have come out this morning and made a light-hearted joke about it (perhaps by quoting someone famous), expressed her respect for Mrs. Obama and suggested that the world has more pressing issues to address. Problem solved. Instead, Mr. Trump's people bobbled the ball all day!

Donald Trump is an idiot.

 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
10. Dysfunctional people don't think clearly and find it hard to be/act sane .
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:39 PM
Jul 2016

It was easy for you and your explanation was perfect!

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