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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
White House mum on Melania Trump speech debacle
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe White House is staying out of the debate over similarities between Melania Trump’s GOP convention speech and Michelle Obama’s speech to the 2008 Democratic convention.
Spokesman Josh Earnest says Mrs. Obama received an enthusiastic reception and strong reviews back then because of the speech, her life story and the values of integrity and hard work that she and the president try to instill in their kids.
Earnest says what matters most is the agenda being put forward to advance those values and that voters will decide in November whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to instill those values in the next generation.
Trump’s campaign is dismissing as “just absurd” criticism that two passages in Melania Trump’s speech were lifted nearly word-for-word from Mrs. Obama.
.@MikeHearn put Melania and Michelle’s convention speeches side-by-side https://t.co/nFknidrWTf
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 19, 2016
— AP
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