Melania Trumpis up at bat again, this time for the 2020 Republican National Convention.
News outlets are busy speculating like high school English teachers.
She’s aiming her speech “at erasing memories of 2016,” writesCNN.
It’s a “chance for redemption,” notesThe Washington Post.
Are the memories flooding back?
Those same passages ended up in the final draft (viaTime).
No plagiarism checker was used.
Okay, you’re thinking, so she plagiarized.
Live, and learn.
Why were people really mad about Melania Trump’s plagiarism?
The fact that it turned into a who-done-it investigation into Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech?
That had more to do with the Trump campaign’s response to plagiarism allegations than Melania Trump, herself.
“It’s not the crime, but the cover-up,” wroteThe Atlantic.
Timedid a piece on it.
Did Manafort and Spicer know they were lying when they defended Melania Trump?
Or did the Trump campaign “throw them under the bus” (asThe New Yorkerput it)?
And so, Melania Trump is up again.
