Trump Team Tries the My Little Pony did it Too Defense

As John Podhoretz says, there are a number of reasons the plagiarism story isn't going anywhere fast.

"CLEVELAND—The plagiarism in Melania Trump’s speech last night at the convention here is an issue because a) it happened; b) the Trump people are insisting on denying that it happened, which makes all of them from Paul Manafort to Chris Christie literally look and sound like they’re in need of psychiatric intervention; c) because of their psychosis, this is going to be talked about for far longer than it would have been had someone just said the non-native-English-speaking Melania was relying on help from a speechwriter who did a bad thing and is being fired, and; d) because it’s funny.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/donald-trump-melania-trump-plagiarism/

Agreed. Another reason is that this is plagiarism we're talking about here which hits a chord with the Beltway media. In their world of journalists, reporters, and editors, this is the equivalent of calling your neighbor a child molester.

Trump''s usual ploy is to deny the obvious and lie in response.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/19/cnn-s-david-gregory-trump-campaign-continues-its-pattern-denying-obvious-or-lying-its-response/211688

But with the Beltway, plagiarism is different. It's the ultimate dirty word and it's destroyed candidates-Biden, 1988.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-media-doesnt-get-much-but-they-get.html

Podhoretz is right, though, that this is really funny. Just when you think it can't get any more absurd, it does. You have Christie bragging that 93 percent of her speech wasn't plagiarism.

Sure but if you only kill .00001 percent of the people you come across in your life, you're still a murderer.

But this takes the cake. The My Little Pony defense.

"Sean Spicer, the top strategist for the Republican National Committee and a consistent defender of Donald Trump, insisted while appearing on CNN today that Melania Trump couldn’t have been plagiarizing Michelle Obama because they both said things which were vaguely similar to what a My Little Pony doll once said. His exact words were: “Twilight Sparkle from ‘My Little Pony’ said: ‘This is your dream. Anything you can do in your dreams you can do now.'”

"And so now a plagiarism scandal, which could have been forgotten in a news cycle or three if it had been dealt with in an immediate and forthright manner, has instead become a story about a comically inept coverup of what they refuse to admit is a plagiarism scandal. Meanwhile, Donald Trump himself has been curiously silent about the entire incident on his infamous Twitter account."

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/donald-trump-surrogate-invokes-my-little-pony-dolls-in-defending-melanias-plagiarism/25271/

I see. Michelle Obama must have plagiarized it from Twilight Sparkle.

"Perhaps Trump is afraid of somehow making the situation even worse by weighing in himself. But now that the Melania scandal has reached the point where Donald’s allies are using My Little Pony dolls to try to craft a coverup, it’s difficult to see how Donald himself could make this even worse by addressing it."

I don't know. Trump can always make things worse by talking. Yet his silence here is also deafening.

In other news: Paul Manafort continues to blame Melania.

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/755502991587864580

While the calls are coming in for his own firing.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-way-to-fix-this-is-to-fire-paul.html