Meredith McIver is Apparently a Real Person

The speechwriter, who has previously assisted with Donald Trump's books and has apparently worked for the Trump Organization for some time, has been aired as being the culprit who might have accidentally included Michelle Obama's actual text in Melania Trump's speech--which was an admission to the plagiarism that occurred while some Trump spox were still defending the idea that wither the plagiarism didn't matter or wasn't really plagiarism for real, for reasons.

Some people didn't even think she was a real person at first, but I m going to believe in you, Meredith McIver, as not being some weird fake person, like John Miller or John Barron.

I am pretty sure her resignation isn't being accepted for reasons, but those reasons are definitely not because "everyone makes mistakes". No really? They found someone who would take the blame on the third fucking day of a story and publicized it in a way that made us wonder if the person they blamed was real. Yay Trump Squad goals! Gettin'er done in roughly two more days than a professional campaign would!

So, are we really happy with the free publicity? Yes, Team Trump thinks you all did very well. Well done youse! You all doubled down on "incompetent" and called it "winning". Wow.

Also, as a Trump corporate employee, her work for the Trump campaign is all kinds of FEC dodgy. So more "publicity" is to be expected. Thumbs up if you've got them!

So The Trump Family Seriously Did This Again?!

So after the whole damn day was devoted to how the hell a whole paragraph of a Michelle Obama speech ended up in Melania Trump's mouth, no one vetted Donald Trump, Jr's speech to make sure it wasn't substantially lifted from anywhere? Like, there was no competent adult around to ensure that not repeating an easily not-repeatable thing was job one?

Look, we've been ensured by Donald Trump that he has the best words. If that is so, why is his closest kin going next-door to borrow a cup of words from other people? Is this just more signs of the lazy, slap-dash con-jobbery that the Trump famiglia  has been getting away with forever?

This is American presidential politics. These people need to raise their game to a better level if they want to do this on the con. Because we can see you!

This Is Not a Normal Campaign

So, before I get into any of the things the RNC produced this evening, let's just get out of the way the fact that the entire day's news cycle was centered on the Trump campaign giving increasingly weirder and less-persuasive reasons why the wife of the GOP candidate happened to have said several sentences that were apparently poached from Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech.

The whole damn day, letting it upstage any other thing that was going on. This isn't exactly in "no, but it's a common shape, like a sheriff's star" territory, but yes! this is exactly where we are!  No competent political adults would let something shitty dominate a news cycle like this. They wouldn't just toss blame back and forth hoping it would land on the carpet for someone else to sweep away. It wouldn't be that hard for a campaign to simply say "Yes, this speech had some obvious borrowings and the speechwriters have been dealt with" instead of actually throwing the candidate's wife under the bus by basically giving away that like the not really ready for political go-time person she was, she tried to emulate someone who seemed pretty competent at the First Lady role--Michelle Obama.

(My other, darker, speculation is that the step kids helped sexy stepmom out by way of a little prank to get her ass thrown under a bus. No competent campaign would let that speculation even look like a possibility for the whole damn day.)

We had Hillary Clinton blamed for the furore (her campaign stayed mum, according to the ancient dictum, that when your opponent is hitting himself in the nuts, one does not intervene). My Little Pony was actually invoked.  Absurdist Trumplestiltskin Katrina Pierson spun bullshit into strawmen by claiming that Michelle Obama did not invent the English language. (Is Pierson a paid spokesperson for the Trump campaign--like, on purpose? She is appalling. Absolutely appalling.)

The Trump campaign seemed to go out of its way to self-immerde. Are there any adults at all in charge there? Should you possibly consider putting Charles in Charge?

But of course not.  Delete your campaign.