We ran Melania Trump's speech through a plagiarism checker... just in case
In her first speech since her plagiarism scandal at the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump managed to stump for her husband without borrowing anyone else's words.
In a speech on Thursday at a rally in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Melania didn't use any phrases from Michelle Obama speeches -- or anyone else's work. Mashable confirmed Melania's clean copy by running it through a plagiarism checker.
Melania learned the lesson most people learn in school, after she ripped off an entire section of her RNC speech in July from FLOTUS. As a plagiarism checker confirmed at the time, a large portion of her speech, in which she talked about American values and passing them onto the next generation, was lifted from Obama's own Democratic National Convention speech from 2008.
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On Thursday, right after Melania blessed "this beautiful country," Mashable's plagiarism report came back with only a 22.5 percent similarity to other online sources -- most of which were other sites and articles citing and quoting her speech.
Looks like she's in the clear and making Trump proud, just five days out from the election.
UPDATE: Friday, Nov. 4, 11 a.m. ET: One line of Melania's speech has been previously used in a speech by Trump's second wife Marla Maples, according to Tablet reporter Yair Rosenberg and Twitter user Yoni Brander.
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
