RNC official defends Melania Trump by quoting 'My Little Pony'

While the world reels from last night's baffling case of apparent plagiarism by Melania Trump, Republican strategists are doing their best damage control. Unfortunately, it doesn't look their best is quite up to snuff.

Trump has denied that she did anything untoward in writing her speech, and other Trump officials have similarly denied the charges.

Meanwhile, RNC communications director Sean Spicer appeared on CNN this afternoon to continue the defense of Trump's speech but did so by comparing bits of her speech to phrases that have been used by other big names, including John Legend, Kid Rock and Twilight Sparkle, a My Little Pony.

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It's an interesting defense because the strongest argument Spicer seems to be making is that Trump's speech wasn't plagiarized, it was just unoriginal.

Later, Spicer made the same defense later on MSNBC but simply substituted Akon for Kid Rock.

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Twitter users, however, weren't buying what Spicer was selling.

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And we're just starting day two of the convention.

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