While watching this charade, one of the things that I've noticed is that Trump will talk about small pieces of information that form his argument, then he has a conclusion, which he states two or three times in succession, with little variance.
Watching the highlights of his debates and speeches,but usually not live, it started to wear on me.
Its very interesting, I don't recall any other politician doing that, but thinking back he has used that technique even before he was a politician. His MO when challenged is to diminish who made the statement even if true, for example if someone said something negative about him, he would respond with something like, "She's a loser, a very big loser, and no one would stand behind that loser" (thinking Rosie O'Donnel here and others).
This is not Trump's accident, it is his way, and has been for a long time.
And now his wife has plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech. That is beyond anything I would ever expect in a presidential campaign. How did this happen? An explanation will be required, and there are two options: (1) a speech writer cribbed it, which means Melaina lied about writing it herself, or (2) Melaina did write it cribbing Michelle's speech, which has other consequences.
I feel bad for the US. Clinton or Trump.
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