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Trump's star turn at the Republican National Convention Monday night captivated a GOP crowd. "Ninety-nine percent of that speech talked about her being an immigrant and love of country and love of family and everything else." "There were a few words on it, but they're not words that were unique words," he told The Associated Press. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort insisted no mistakes had been made with the speech and said the issue was "totally blown out of proportion." The Trump campaign dismissed criticism that Trump directly lifted two passages nearly word-for-word from the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention, calling the complaints "just absurd." The strategist, who joined the Trump campaign in March to advise on a potential delegate fight, soon gained control of the entire campaign and edged out campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday called plagiarism charges against Melania Trump for her Republican National Convention speech "baloney” and pointed to similar charges against Vice President Joe Biden. Manafort is a veteran Republican operative with connections to a number of foreign regimes, including that of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. The source said Gates signed off on the speech and edited it. This runs counter to her own statements in an interview with NBC prior to the speech, in which she claimed to have written the speech herself.Ī campaign source suggested to the Guardian that the blame lay with Rick Gates, a longtime aide to top Trump strategist Paul Manafort. Miller added that the speech was produced by Melania Trump’s “team”. In an initial statement issued at 2am, Jason Miller, the campaign’s senior communications adviser and Trump’s speechwriter, had said Melania Trump’s speech included “fragments” of others’ speeches that “reflected her own thinking”, though did not directly answer accusations of plagiarism. “There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech,” Manafort told CNN, adding “there’s no feeling on her part that she did it.” Manafort suggested that she was simply using “words that are common words”. On Tuesday morning, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said it was “just absurd” to claim that Melania Trump had plagiarised the first lady. The Trump campaign has denied accusations of plagiarism. WATCH: /zudpDznGng- Jarrett Hill July 19, 2016 That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son, and we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow, because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”ĬORRECTION: Melania stole a whole graph from Michelle's speech. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life. Trump told GOP delegates on Monday: “From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values 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. Because we want our children – and all children in this nation – to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” “And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. “Barack and I were 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,” Obama told the gathering of Democrats in 2008.