Meredith McIver is the in-house staff writer at the The Trump Organization, she has worked there since September 2001. Despite working for Donald Trump who is the presidential nominee for the Republican Party, Meredith is a registered Democrat. She has ghost written several books for Donald Trump. Meredith lives in New York, New York but is originally from San Jose, California. [16] [2]
Prior to working for The Trump Organization that Meredith worked on Wall Street. Meredith studied English at the University of Utah where she graduated with honors. At the age of 14, Meredith started her ballet career as a Ford Foundation Scholar. She trained at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. [11]
Donald Trump books ghost written by Meredith McIver [5] :
Meredith McIver helped Melania Trump write a speech that allegedly plagiarized from a speech by Michelle Obama for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. [2]
The speech generated much controversy and became known as Speechgate - Melania Trump convention speech plagiarism scandal 2016. [2] McIver offered her resignation on July 20th, 2016 in response to the backlash from the speech citing that it was a personal mistake to include Michelle Obama's speech in Melania Trump's own address. She offered her resignation from the Trump campaign, but Donald Trump refused to fire her responding that it was an honest and small mistake.
There is a conspiracy theory that Mciver included the plagiarism on purpose to sabotage Trump. Further evidence is that a line from Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" - often used on the Internet for prank Rickrolling - was included in the speech. The line was: “He will never, ever give you up. And most importantly, he will never, ever let you down.”