Trump Campaign Finally Finds Staffer To Take The Fall

After spending all day yesterday saying that Melania really did not plagiarize Michelle Obama, The Trump campaign has come out today saying that a staffer did, in fact, do exactly that. Meredith McGiver, an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization, has come out and said she inadvertently included some phrases of Michelle Obama’s speech in the speech that Melania Trump gave on Monday night. Apparently, Melania likes Michelle Obama and has been inspired by her words, so Melania read examples of those words to McGiver and she included them in the speech. Needless to say, McGiver’s admission would have probably ended the story if it had been released early yesterday morning. But, having spent more than 24 hours denying that there was anything wrong with Melania’s speech, her admission is a little harder to be believed. To my cynical mind, it looks like they had to spend a day finding some staffer who was willing to take the fall. But even if you don’t share my point of view, for a campaign that is basically running on the theme that Hillary is a liar and can’t be trusted, it can not be helpful to absolutely and totally deny something one day and then turn around and admit it was true the next. But Trump has gotten away with this kind of move so many times in the past, I’m pretty sure he will get away with it again this time.