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Melania Trump’s speechwriter falls on her sword

Melania Trump speaks on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday. Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS

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Melania Trump speaks on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday. Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS
By Jim Galloway
July 20, 2016

Trump staffer Meredith McIver says she knew that Melania Trump was interested in passages from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech, but failed to make a final comparison with the original source. Read it here:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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