Something went wrong Monday night at the RNC, when Melania Trump gave a speech that sounded suspiciously similar to Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech. But more than 24 hours later, we still don't know who is responsible for the controversy. At the convention in Cleveland, we heard many possible explanations, most of them defensive of Melania. The internet is full of a ideas, too. Below our nine different ways to explain what happened.
Former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was just ousted in June. Assuming he wanted to embarrass his internal adversaries, maybe Lewandowski called on people loyal to him inside the Trump campaign to plant the plagiarism. He has been calling for accountability for the mistake and suggested his replacement, Manafort, be fired. Or, maybe an insider with a different motive made it happen. More evidence that it was intentional? The speech also included a Rickroll.