Donald Trump has managed to find the "good news" in wife Melania's plagiarism scandal. On Wednesday — two days after Melania gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that bore striking similarities to remarks Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 — Trump went ahead and applauded the speech anyway, because it got so much publicity:
While Trump's team has already been out in full force denying that the speech was plagiarized, Trump's tweets Wednesday mark his first response to the accusations.
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