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CNN Host Calls Senior Trump Aide Out On Plagiarized Speech: Youre Lying
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By Allegra Kirkland
Published
July 20, 2016, 9:17 AM EDT
CNNs Chris Cuomo on Wednesday subjected Donald Trumps campaign manager to an extended grilling for steadfastly denying that part of Melania Trumps speech at the Republican National Convention was plagiarized.
Some of those words came from Michelle Obama's speech in 2008, Cuomo told Paul Manafort, who said on Tuesday that Trump's wife simply used "common words" in her speech. You have every kind of expert and anybody with eyes who sees that, you keep ignoring it. I don't understand why. I don't understand why you keep making this an issue.
Because it is a speech that she gave, talking about her feelings. She is not a candidate for office, Manafort replied, pivoting to discuss how Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination despite all the conventional wisdom.
That's the story, he insisted.
Cuomo wasnt having it.
You're distracting from the story line by refusing to acknowledge something that's true, and it plays into two issues, he said. Cuomo argued that the campaign's refusal to admit that part of the speech was plagiarized undercut their message that Hillary Clinton was too untrustworthy to serve as president, and spoke to the campaigns pattern of denial when faced with any conflict. ....................
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