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'Melania Trump' Addresses RNC Speech Plagiarism Claims On 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert'

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Melania Trump delivered another speech on Tuesday night.

Or did she?

Actress Laura Benanti delivered a spot-on impression of Mrs. Trump on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and explained she did not plagiarize her speech at the RNC Monday evening.

(Watch the video above).

On Wednesday, a Trump Organization staff writer said she made a "mistake" in including passages from a Michelle Obama speech in Melania Trump's convention speech.

Meredith McIver says she offered her resignation, but Donald Trump rejected it.

Earlier Wednesday, Donald Trump tweeted that the media was spending more time analyzing Melania's speech than the FBI spent on Hillary Clinton's emails.

He also defended Melania's speech and said it was not plagiarized.

Trump tweeted the following Wednesday:

Melania Trump claimed to have penned the speech on her own, mostly.

"I wrote it — with a little help as possible," she told Matt Lauer in an interview Monday.

 

Other Republicans, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Long Island Rep. Peter King, also came to Melania Trump's defense on Tuesday.

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