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Let's Talk About Melania Trump's RNC Speech

Forget about the plagiarism and focus on the hypocrisy.

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Let's Talk About Melania Trump's RNC Speech

I'm sure by now most people have heard of the scandal surrounding Melania Trump at the Republican National Convention. Mrs. Trump plagiarized an entire paragraph from Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech in 2008. A Twitter user noticed the striking similarities in the speeches shortly after Trump began speaking, and it has plastered every website and form of social media since. But the surprise to Trump's blatant plagiarism masked the real issue of her speech: the hypocrisy in her future plans as First Lady should Donald Trump win the presidency.


There's no doubt I, and many other people, were baffled by her audacity in saying, "Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people. That includes Christians and Jews and Muslims, it includes Hispanics and African-Americans and Asians, and the poor and the middle class." Mind you, this is the man who wants to literally build a wall around our southern border and make Mexico pay for it; who has blamed all Muslims for any act of terrorism and thinks banning their travel to the U.S. will solve problems.

But the part of Trump's speech that caught me the most off guard came toward her conclusion: "If I am honored to serve as First Lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most. One of the many causes dear to my heart is helping children and women. You judge a society by how it treats its citizens."

This speech came just days after Donald Trump selected Indiana Governor Mike Pence to serve as his running mate, a man who openly pushes bills to law that allow discrimination against the LGBT community by private businesses, who co-sponsored an anti-abortion bill redefining rape as "forcible rape," who urged the shutdown of Planned Parenthood and who decreased funding for both higher education and domestic violence programs.

If Melania Trump wants so badly to help women and children and to treat citizens of this country the way they deserve to be treated (she put special emphasis on "citizens" in her speech), maybe she should start by not supporting her own husband's presidential campaign.

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