They spent more time focused on this than they did on what Pat Smith was saying about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi
Via Free Beacon:
Trump Organization staff writer Meredith McIver released a statement Wednesday apologizing for her role in the Melania Trump plagiarism controversy, saying it was a mistake and expressing regret over “the confusion and hysteria” it caused.
Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention Monday night that was revealed to have lifted nearly an entire paragraph from a 2008 Democratic convention address given by First Lady Michelle Obama. The story dominated media coverage throughout the second day of the RNC and into the third.
McIver wrote that Mrs. Trump was an admirer of Mrs. Obama and, as they drafted the speech, she had shared some passages she liked from the First Lady’s addresses over the phone.
“I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech,” she wrote. “I did not check Mrs. Obama’s speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant.”