Trump throws writer under the plagiarism bus ... and runs into a violation of campaign laws

There’s nothing like turning a minor story into a three day disaster to show America how great your administration would be at handling a crisis. But while the Trump campaign may have finally stopped accusing Hillary, the media, and … words long enough to admit they have a problem. It turns out they still have a problem.

Donald Trump's campaign finally admitted on Wednesday that parts of Melania Trump's convention speech had been plagiarized, releasing a brief statement from the person responsible.

Writer Meredith McIver stepped up to take the blame. And not for the first time.

In a 2007 deposition, Mr. Trump was grilled over whether he had overstated his debt by billions of dollars in a couple of his co-written books to make his comeback seem more significant.

He acknowledged the exaggeration, but the mistake, he said, was not his. “This is somebody that wrote it, probably Meredith McIver,” Mr. Trump said.

But there’s a bigger problem than Trump’s re-use of McIver as a “get out of mistakes free” card.

Notice the letterhead of [McIver’s] statement: The Trump Organization, which is to say Donald Trump's personal business. And notice how McIver describes herself: As an employee of the Trump Organization, not the campaign.

If Trump used corporate resources to write a political speech, that could be illegal.