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00:02Melania Trump blames the Trump campaign staff and speechwriter Meredith McIver in her memoir
00:07for the plagiarism scandal involving her 2016 Republican National Convention speech.
00:13Melania acknowledges the undeniable similarities between her speech and Michelle Obama's 2008
00:18Democratic National Convention speech and expresses a deep sense of betrayal, questioning
00:23why the speech wasn't properly vetted.
00:26She explains how McIver, a longtime family friend and writer for the Trump Organization,
00:30borrowed phrases from Obama's speech.
00:32Although McIver apologized publicly, Melania criticizes the campaign's failure to safeguard
00:37her speech, leaving her reputation tarnished.
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