Team Trump Released A Letter To Try To End Its Plagiarism Scandal. It May Backfire. (Updated)

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/20/3800321/donald-trump-melania-plagiarism-corporate-contribution/

In a statement released on Wednesday, a staff writer for Donald Trump’s corporation took responsibility for the portions of Monday’s speech by Melania Trump that were lifted from a speech by Michelle Obama in 2008. In addition to contradicting many of the myriad excuses Trump’s campaign had made on Monday, this admission may cause more headaches for the campaign.

The statement was printed not on campaign letterhead, but on Trump Organization letterhead. In it, Meredith McIver identified herself not as a campaign staffer, but as “an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization.” She notes that she offered her resignation “to Mr. Trump and the Trump family,” but makes no mention of offering to resign from the Trump campaign.

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UPDATE JUL 21, 2016 10:07 AM

The Democratic Coalition Against Trump, an arm of the Keep America Great PAC, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, alleging "illegally accepting direct corporate contributions, accepting services from a volunteer that were actually compensated, use of the Trump corporate name or trademark to facilitate campaign contributions, illegal use of corporate facilities by a campaign volunteer, and knowingly allowing volunteers to exceed the transportation expense limit."

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Assuming she is real, depose her. If she is not real, Donald needs to drop out and get the help that he needs.

[gopiscrap]

1. no kidding

I don't understand why we (the press mainly) consider him even a serious candidate

[Pluvious]

2. Because this country reelected George Bush n/t