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http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/twitter-suspends-account-of-melania-trump-speechwriter-meredith-mciver-who-probably-isnt-a-real-person/25566/Days after Melania Trump gave a Republican National Convention speech which was plagiarized from an eight year old Michelle Obama speech, the Trump Organization laid the blame on her longtime speechwriter Meredith McIver. The trouble: no such person appeared to exist. Various pages depicting her life were discovered to have only been created after she was assigned the blame for the plagiarism, including a Twitter account which she primarily used to keep insisting that she was in fact a real person. But it appears that Twitters management has ultimately reached the opposite conclusion, suspending the account in question.
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riversedge
(70,204 posts)malaise
(268,968 posts)plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech. They did not expect to be caught and indeed they were not caught by anyone associated with M$Greedia. It was an unemployed journalist who smelled a rat and recognized the theft.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)I think she was handed a speech by someone who didn't have to worry about it being vetted.
rocktivity
malaise
(268,968 posts)Yep - or she stole it herself
yup
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)how in the hell the MSM allows this man to go unchallenged. Trump and company are obviously, as Fareed Zakaria, said today on his show bullshit artists. Don the Flimflam man....
Disgusting....
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Just throwing that out there
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)Here's my gut feeling:
Don had the speech written. They knew it was plagiarized but, because of the thickness of the bubble walls, thought they could get away with it. After all, it was an eight year old speech.
So Don soothed her, telling her it would be all right. She was feeling like a high school kid getting all built up to her big night. Practicing and practicing.
Then BAM.
They get found out.
It all exploded.
She's mortified.
Don had to shower her with $symbols of hi$ love for her to get her to $how for his big acceptance $peech. $he $how$ up and all appear$ happy.
But she's beyond pissed. She wants all this to end.
Now the green card/immigration story bubbles up along with pictures of her girls.
This story will have legs. The M$M will try to avoid it, but they will not be able to.
Stay tuned . . . .
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Arianna Huffington also came to town to find a rich man, but she has more innate intelligence and focus in her little finger than Melania has in her entire penthouse.
Melania hooked up with a grifter, and she appears to be one herself, though not on his scale. Now the pretty bubbles she lives in are all popping -- and quite publicly. I'm not feeling too sorry for either of them.
George II
(67,782 posts)emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)But I really don't have a high opinion of her.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)...and lavished enough money around to unseat a stodgy but respected Republican Congressman. Long story short, they didn't fit in, didn't get the concerns of the County, his reputation unravelled a bit, and her rumored dreams of running him for president came to naught.
Too bad, so sad.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Served as his own spokesperson (under an assumed same), posted online using an alias, etc. etc. I have no doubt he made up this "speechwriter" person.
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)One way of avoiding the consequences if he was caught doing something
dishonest. Avoiding consequence is his best skill.
George II
(67,782 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,454 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)NBachers
(17,108 posts)Source: NBC/MSNBC
A Democratic super PAC has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging that the Trump campaign broke federal election law by using his corporation to advance his presidential campaign.
The complaint was filed after Meredith McIver took the blame for cribbing parts of Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech for Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention Monday night.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141525584
unblock
(52,208 posts)they can't even lie well. if they had blamed it on a campaign flunky, that might have been the end of it.
but, since they are all in way over their collective heads, they said "mciver" worked for the corporation, not realizing that that would be illegal.
*that* made people want to find out who she really was, which quickly made it evident that she was fictitious.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)her.
unblock
(52,208 posts)The latest guess seems to be she exists but doesn't have an online presence so "her" twitter account was a fake.
Hard to figure out what's going on because the trumpies are keeping quiet until they can figure out a better lie.
tavernier
(12,383 posts)to embarrass Trump at the highest level. That was just in no way a coincidence. No one in his camp recognized it as MO's speech. They couldn't nail down a culprit, so made up a phony sympathy story and "victim".
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)from http://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/12/donald-trumps-business-failures-election-2016-486091.html
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)cojoel
(957 posts)to someone like John Miller
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)She sounds completely made up. Why don't they follow up on this story more?
Not that it's so important in its own right, but it is important that a presidential candidate would go to such lengths to completely fabricate a story. Combined with everything else he says and does, it makes you wonder what else he's hiding.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)I hope they *know* that this will go DOWN on their permanent record.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)times as Trump's personal assistant)...but if she is...
Why would he put her as co-author on many of his books? to have someone to blame if errors?
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)plausible deniability
OhZone
(3,212 posts)trying to sabotage her (successfully)!
Remember, this was added to the speech too!
sarae
(3,284 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)is that she threw that out - because they probably treat her like low class shit.
Then she had to scramble - so she watched Michelle's and liked it. She probably had no idea you couldn't switch some words around and use lines. And, the kids/Trump, when they read it, were too dippy to know or to check.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Weak asses
randome
(34,845 posts)...but for whatever reason and under whatever bizarre circumstances, Trump chose to use that name as another pseudonym. I don't think she exists, either.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
matt819
(10,749 posts)She exists or she doesn't. How difficult can it be for someone, anyone, to find her?
Takket
(21,563 posts)if she exists, go to her house and take a picture of her! are twitter accounts the only way we can prove people exist anymore????????
I don't understand...they can find out all kinds of stuff these days, but they can't determine whether this is a real person?
No one has come forward to say they know her in real life, have they? This whole thing is just so bizarre; it seems like a giant joke.
randome
(34,845 posts)The campaign McIver just happens to share the same name as another Meredith McIver. Prove differently!
The campaign McIver is out of communication with the campaign. Maybe even fired when the heat gets to be too much, and no one knows where she's gone. Prove differently!
But I smell a rat. There never was a Meredith McIver associated with the campaign. Trump, for whatever bizarre reason, has been using the name for years.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Takket
(21,563 posts)Tactical Peek
(1,208 posts)http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/03/who-s-impersonating-melania-trump-s-plagiarist-meredith-mciver.html
With Lyin' Donald, it's hard to know.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)So were walking by all these big buildings in New York that Id read about in the book, and Im thinking, what the heck, lets call him, Leach says.
The coach dialed information to get a number for Trump Enterprises, then called the main line, where he talked a receptionist into transferring him to Trumps personal assistant, Meredith McIver.
Leach didnt get to speak to Trump that day, but as he walked the streets of New York City with cabs honking in the background and his daughters exchanging amused looks as they trailed along behind him, he bonded with McIver in a phone conversation that centered on their Utah ties he went to BYU and shes a Utah alum.
Let me add: I think a person exists - but quite possible the McIver is a pseudonym. Someone is co-author on many of his books - because the ghost writer of Art of the Deal - said he wrote the whole thing. Trump has no patience to write a book. So he may have hire some extremely well paid writer who agrees to take the fall for whatever he wants her to take the fall for. Just guessing here of course
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)profiles before Melania-gate) but the Twitter account does not appear to be connected to her, nor does she appear to have any social media presence. For her age that's not unusual.
I looked at the address on the voter registration because I was curious if it's a Trump property. It's basically the exact opposite- a small apartment in a cute brick pre-war building. I don't want to read too much into that but it's interesting.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)just that bad.
It was fucking hysterical, actually.
But what's interesting is no "real" McIver has apparently shown up anywhere, to disavow any of it.