Rated FALSE Manafort's claim that Clinton was 1st to feed media story of Melania plagiarism:

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"The Clinton camp was the first to get it out there and try to say there was something untoward about the speech that Melania Trump gave."

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/19/paul-manafort/trump-campaign-chair-pins-melania-plagiarism-story/#/







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"The Clinton camp was the first to get it out there and try to say there was something untoward about the speech that Melania Trump gave."

— Paul Manafort on Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 in a press conference
Trump campaign chair pins Melania plagiarism story on Hillary Clinton's campaign

By Lauren Carroll on Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 at 4:07 p.m.

Trump campaign chair pins Melania plagiarism story on Hillary Clinton's campaign
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Donald Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort said the most-covered story from the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention was fed to the press by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.




Trump’s wife, Melania, was the headline speaker Monday night in Cleveland, but it appears she borrowed some words from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama. Read our comparison of the two speeches here.

"There’s a political tint to this whole issue," Manafort said in a televised statement July 19. "The Clinton camp was the first to get it out there and try to say there was something untoward about the speech that Melania Trump gave. It’s just another example, as far as we’re concerned, that when Hillary Clinton is threatened by a female, the first thing she does is try to destroy the person."


............The Clinton campaign has barely reacted to the claims that Melania Trump took some phrases from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech. A Twitter user in Los Angeles, who has no Clinton campaign ties, was the first to draw attention to the similarities between the two speeches.

We rate Manafort's claim False.

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1. Manafort is a professional liar who lobbied for a fascist Russian puppet for over ten years

Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade.

And has been detailed here:
http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/

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2. Thanks for the post.