Yes, Old Soul, I am published.  Hundreds of journal articles.  If someone claimed to have rediscovered some of the science I have published without credit, I would be pissed.  But that is because the science was my work product and attribution important for work reasons.  In the Melania gate matter, Michelle had not made a discovery or formulated ideas that are unique.  She pretty much said boilerplate things that are said all the time and we must remember that Michelle was likely just reading from a script prepared by someone else.  Because the ideas contained in the sentences are pretty much boilerplate, repeating the often stated ideas in the same or other words does not constitute appropriation of Michelle's individual intellectual product.  What is unique about what Michelle said?  Just some platitudes which we have all heard before.