This time she plagiarized from Marla Maples
It’s difficult to find other instances of the phrase, “If you dream it you could become it.”
Melania Trump is, however, uniquely positioned in the crosshairs of the plagiarism patrol, after she (and/or the speechwriter, Meredith McIver, who took the blame) lifted portions of a Michelle Obama speech in July. Several journalists quickly noticed that one of Melania Trump’s hopeful mantras — “if you could dream it, you could become it” — was uttered first by Donald Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, in 2011.
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As for the number of women in poverty, it sure sounded like she said “50 percent.” That would be a huge exaggeration, of course. It also sounded like she said “60 million” people lack health insurance. That would also be a big stretch.
According to a transcript of Melania Trump’s prepared remarks, provided after the speech by the Trump campaign, she meant to say “15 percent” of women live in poverty, which would be accurate, and “16 million” people lack health insurance. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report published in September, there were 28.5 million uninsured non-elderly Americans at the end of 2015.
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