Watch: Melania Trump’s convention address was REALLY similar to a Michelle Obama speech from 2008

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump’s wife has been accused of plagiarising a 2008 speech made by Michelle Obama when she spoke to the US Republican National Convention last night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The tycoon was introducing his wife Melania&comma; who made her highest-profile appearance of the presidential campaign so far as she assured voters that her husband will unite a divided nation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Donald Trump’s wife has been accused of plagiarising a 2008 speech made by Michelle Obama when she spoke to the US Republican National Convention last night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The tycoon was introducing his wife Melania&comma; who made her highest-profile appearance of the presidential campaign so far as she assured voters that her husband will unite a divided nation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Delegates in Cleveland&comma; Ohio were gushing about the speech&comma; with John Salm&comma; from Virginia&comma; saying&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I think she&&num;8217&semi;s going to be a great asset&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s just magnificent&period; Honestly she reminds me of Jackie Kennedy&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think everybody fell in love with her tonight&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Deedee Kelly&comma; from Omaha&comma; Nebraska&period; &&num;8220&semi;She seemed to talk from her heart&comma; she really did&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"696" height&equals;"392" data-videoid&equals;"Jt&lowbar;9yb4FSYA" title&equals;"Melania Trump&&num;039&semi;s full speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;Jt&lowbar;9yb4FSYA"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;Jt&lowbar;9yb4FSYA&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Melania Trump&&num;039&semi;s full speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Mrs Trump&&num;8217&semi;s speech&comma; she said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;From a young age&comma; my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life&comma; that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise&comma; that you treat people with respect&period; They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Mrs Obama&&num;8217&semi;s 2008 speech in Denver&comma; Colorado&comma; she said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values&colon; like&comma; you work hard for what you want in life&comma; that your word is your bond&comma; that you do what you say you&&num;8217&semi;re going to do&comma; that you treat people with dignity and respect&comma; even if you don&&num;8217&semi;t know them and even if you don&&num;8217&semi;t agree with them&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another passage with notable similarities that followed two sentences later in Mrs Trump&&num;8217&semi;s speech addressed her attempts to instil those values in her son&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mrs Trump said&period; &&num;8220&semi;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&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the First Lady&&num;8217&semi;s 2008 speech&comma; she said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values and to pass them onto the next generation&comma; because we want our children &&num;8211&semi; and all children in this nation &&num;8211&semi; to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Trump campaign today responded in a statement that said her &&num;8220&semi;immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech&&num;8221&semi;&comma; and did not mention Mrs Obama&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;In writing her beautiful speech&comma; Melania&&num;8217&semi;s team of writers took notes on her life&&num;8217&semi;s inspirations&comma; and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump spokesman Jason Miller said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>White House officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview with NBC News taped ahead of her convention appearance and posted online early Tuesday&comma; Mrs Trump said of her speech&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I wrote it&&num;8221&semi;&comma; adding that she had &&num;8220&semi;a little help&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her star turn on the opening night of the convention captivated a Republican crowd that had rarely heard from her during her husband&&num;8217&semi;s bruising White House campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump emerged from the shadows to declare to cheers&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re going to win&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re going to win so big&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He introduced &&num;8220&semi;my wife&comma; an amazing mother&comma; an incredible woman&&num;8221&semi; and returned to the stage after her speech to kiss her and lead the cheers of the crowd&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Slovenian-born former model&comma; 24 years his junior&comma; presented a softer and gentler Donald Trump during her 10-minute speech&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 46-year-old did not dwell on her humble upbringing in an industrial town in what was then a part of communist Yugoslavia&comma; but she spoke of her family&comma; her sister Ines&comma; her &&num;8220&semi;elegant and hardworking mother Amalia&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and her father Viktor&comma; who &&num;8220&semi;instilled in me a passion for business and travel&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Donald Trump has previously praised speeches by Michelle Obama&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;93919" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-93919" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;image-113&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;image-113&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Donald and Melenia Trump at the convention in Ohio&period;" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"325" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-93919" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-93919" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Donald and Melenia Trump at the convention in Ohio&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The speech came after Republican divisions had erupted on the convention floor earlier after party officials adopted rules by a shouted voice vote as anti-Trump forces seeking to derail his nomination responded with loud and angry chants&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Outside the building&comma; hundreds of Trump supporters and opponents held rival rallies half-a-mile apart&comma; with Cleveland Police reporting there had been no violence&comma; or damage to property&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Trump&&num;8217&semi;s appearance was a sharp contrast to most of the night&&num;8217&semi;s other speakers&comma; who painted a bleak picture of an American future that they said only her husband can correct&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A parade of speakers told emotional stories about loved ones killed while serving in the military or at the hands of people in the United States illegally&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They cast the difficult times as a direct result of weak leadership by President Barack Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton&comma; who spent four years in the administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Who would trust Hillary Clinton to protect them&quest; I wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t&comma;&&num;8221&semi; former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in one of the night&&num;8217&semi;s most fiery addresses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many of the party&&num;8217&semi;s past and future stars were missing from the event&comma; underscoring the concerns Republican leaders have with closely aligning themselves with Mr Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That left him with an eclectic array of supporters&comma; including Happy Days actor Scott Baio and Willie Robertson&comma; star of the reality TV series Duck Dynasty&comma; who took the stage with an American flag bandanna wrapped around his head&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed3b0a0ef74">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; 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