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An employee of the Trump Organisation has plagiarism in helping to write Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention. Mrs Trump was at the convention to her husband Donald becoming the Republican nominee in the race to President of the USA in November. She a speech about how great she her husband was. Unfortunately, many journalists several lines from the speech. They identical to lines in a speech given by Michelle Obama in 2008 about her husband Barack. Newspapers have full of stories in recent days about how Donald Trump's organisation Mrs Trump to make a speech that was plagiarised.

Plagiarism is the work of other people without saying you are copying it. Students are from a very young age not to copy because it is . Students who the work of others usually an F-grade for their work. Schools often students for plagiarism. Dr Alex Goodall, a university examination expert, said: "Melania's speech us a graphic example of plagiarism in action, from the highest levels of American politics." Writing expert Dr Declan Kavanagh said that because of the plagiarism, people will not or believe her words. Donald Trump the story "good news" because the speech, "got more publicity than any [speech] in the history of politics".

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