Donald Trump Jr. Wednesday praised Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention and said that his father's campaign was now "focused on what's ahead and getting through the convention."
"She got up on stage — and this is someone who's avoided the public light," Trump told Thomas Roberts on MSNBC. "She hasn't shown up for all the photo-ops.
"She wants to be a mother. She wants to raise her kids and do a great job with it, which she has.
"To be able to get up on that stage and — not doing this day in and day out — and deliver a speech that she did, it was phenomenal," Trump said. "I think she did an amazing job. I couldn't have been more impressed."
Meredith McIver, a staff writer for the Trump Organization, said Wednesday that she was responsible for including passages from a speech Michelle Obama delivered at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Melania Trump's remarks on Monday in Cleveland.
McIver said she offered her resignation Tuesday, but Donald Trump rejected it.
The campaign had denied any accusations that portions of Melania Trump's speech was plagiarized, saying the similarities were coincidence.
Trump Jr., who pledged the New York delegates that sealed the nomination for his father on Tuesday and later spoke at the Quicken Loans Arena, said that the debacle did not reflect any mismanagement by campaign chief Paul Manafort.
"It was just a couple of mistakes and it really didn't have as much to do with Paul," he told Roberts. "Melania worked with one other individual — and it's not about a campaign thing.
"Other people have been trying to say that. That's not what it is.
"We're focused on what's ahead and getting through the convention," Trump added. "We're now there, and we've just got a long sprint until November."
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