Priebus says he’d ‘probably’ fire Melania Trump’s speechwriters

Published July 19, 2016 3:38pm ET



Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said he would “probably” fire Melania Trump’s speechwriter following claims that her convention speech plagiarized Michelle Obama’s remarks from 2008.

“I don’t blame her,” Priebus said of Melania at a Bloomberg Politics breakfast in Cleveland on the second day of the Republican National Convention. “Some of these things are pretty common themes.”

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