NYT analysis of how Melania Trump plagiarism happened

[uhnope]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/us/politics/melania-trump-convention-speech.html?_r=1
Key part:

The speechwriters, Matthew Scully and John McConnell, sent Ms. Trump a draft last month, eager for her approval.

Weeks went by. They heard nothing.

Inside Trump Tower, it turned out, Ms. Trump had decided she was uncomfortable with the text, and began tearing it apart, leaving a small fraction of the original.

Her quiet plan to wrest the speech away and make it her own set in motion the most embarrassing moment of the convention: word-for-word repetition of phrases and borrowed themes from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention eight years ago.

It was, by all accounts, an entirely preventable blunder, committed in front of an audience of 23 million television viewers, that exposed the weaknesses of an organization that has long spurned the safeguards of a modern presidential campaign, such as the free software that detects plagiarism.

[Geronimoe]

1. The good news is that

she agrees with Michelle on some things.

[GreenEyedLefty]

2. A chilling quote...

"Ms. Trump spent most of Tuesday out of sight, while her husband vented his frustration and anger throughout the day." I bet he took a good portion of it out on her.

[Craig234]

3. It's bad enough without baseless claims of domestic violence.

Just be glad their incompetence and dishonesty is so visible and damaging his convention.

[alfredo]

4. Ego driven mistakes?

Just because she can speak five languages doesn't make her immune from being a total screw up.

I met east African villagers that were illiterate, but could speak seven languages. In conversation they could move from one language to another as needed. It's kind of like we do with Spanglish.

[uhnope]

5. yes and arrogance, privilege + the culture of impunity, IMO

[mainstreetonce]

6. Why isn't anyone looking at the strongest possibility?

That it was Donald who didn't like the first speech and looked at the Obama speech as he rewrote it.

It is Melania who should be angry at him for putting her in this mess.

[Mendocino]

7. Melania Vellinia