NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, July 20, 2016, 2:24 PM
Staff writer Meredith McIver may work for the GOP presidential nominee — but she votes for Democrats.
McIver, 65, the speechwriter who claims she inadvertently caused Melania Trump’s plagiarism during the Republican National Convention, is a longtime staff writer for the Trump organization who lives on the Upper West Side and is a registered Dem.
Her bio shows she’s been working for Donald Trump since 2001 — and they’ve co-authored numerous books together for several publishers, including the 2004 hit “Trump: How to Get Rich.”
According to her bio for All American Speakers, McIver is a “close associate” of the bombastic billionaire.
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McIver helped share the “secrets of (Trump’s) success” in their co-authored books, her bio said.
She helped him present lessons “learned from ‘The Apprentice,’ his real estate empire, his position as head of the 20,000-member Trump Organization, and his most important role, as a father who has successfully taught his children the value of money and hard work,” the page continued.
Prior to joining Trump’s organization, McIver said she worked on Wall Street.
She was originally from San Jose, Calif., was a Ford Foundation scholar at 14 and also claimed to have been a dancer who trained at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet.
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She graduated with honors from the University of Utah in English, her bio said.
Other Trump books McIver has coauthored include: