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White House Responds To Petition To Label ‘Black Lives Matter’ As Terrorists
Melania Trump: ‘I Swear I Wrote The Speech Myself’
On Monday night as millions watched, First Lady hopeful, Melania Trump delivered a speech to introduce her hus- band, Donald at the Republi- can National Convention in Cleveland.
Melania began to discuss family values with conviction. But, as the world knows now, something just wasn’t quite right.
Melania’s words sounded similar to First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Here is an excerpt from Melania’s speech Monday night.
“From a young age, my par- ents impressed on me the val- ues that you work hard for what you want in life: that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise; that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life.”
This is from Mrs. Obama’s 2008 speech.
“And Barack and I were
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raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them.
Is she a liar?..or did she think that no one would notice, when she stated earlier in the day to
NBC’s Matt Lauer that she wrote the speech with very little assistance.
“I read once over it and that’s all, because I wrote it, and with as little help as possible,” she said.
The next day, after Cable talking heads and the internet ripped her speech to shreds, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort said on CNN’s New Day that Mrs. Trump merely used “common words” as the First Lady and to call it plagiarism is “crazy” and “absurd”.
However according to Politico.com, one of the rea- sons Melania Trump’s ap- parent plagiarism of Michelle Obama was so stunning was that it’s the kind of snafu that’s not supposed to happen on a big stage like a national con- vention.
Normally, incredulous former presidential speechwriters and communications aides said, a high-profile address like Mela- nia Trump’s would have been carefully scrubbed well before being delivered.
After days of violence and heightened racial tensions in the U.S., the White House re- sponded to an online petition asking the federal government to formally label the Black Lives Matter movement as a "terror group."
" Terrorism is defined as 'the use of violence and intimida- tion in pursuit of political aims,'" read the "We The Peo- ple" petition, created July 6 on the White House website. "This definition is the same defini- tion used to declare ISIS and other groups, as terrorist or- ganizations."
Black Lives Matter, the peti- tion said, "earned this title due to its actions in Ferguson, Bal- timore, and even at a Bernie Sanders rally, as well as all over the United States and Canada." It asked the Pentagon to recognize the group as such "on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety."
Because the online document received over 141,000 names -- the White House was automat- ically prompted to respond.
The "We the People" team noted that "The White House plays no role in designating do- mestic terror organizations," nor does the U.S. government "generate a list of domestic ter- ror organizations."
"[T]herefore," the response read, "we are not able to ad- dress the formal request of
your petition."
The White House then went
further: Acknowledging that it was a "difficult time" for the country -- and that the debate remains a "charged" one -- the statement additionally prompted petition signers to consider President Obama's words calling for compassion towards the movement.
"I think it's important for us to also understand that the phrase 'black lives matter' sim- ply refers to the notion that there's a specific vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be addressed," the President said last week, talk- ing to a Washington, D.C. gath- ering of enforcement officials, civil rights leaders, elected offi- cials and other activists on the issue of racial disparities in the criminal justice system. "We shouldn't get too caught up in this notion that somehow peo- ple who are asking for fair treatment are somehow, auto- matically, anti-police, are try- ing to only look out for Black lives as opposed to others. I think we have to be careful about playing that game."
One public voice of the move- ment, DeRay McKesson, urged peace after news of the Louisiana deaths broke.
"The movement began as a call to end violence," he said. "That call remains."
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