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How ‘common’ were the words Melania and Michelle both used?

By Timothy P. Carney
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How ‘common’ were the words Melania and Michelle both used?

“These were common words and values,” Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort said, defending Melania Trump from the charge that she plagiarized Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech.

How common were they? It’s fair to say Michelle Obama wasn’t the first person to use those phrases

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