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2016 Postmortem

RandySF

(58,911 posts) Tue Jul 19, 2016, 11:31 PM Jul 2016

It appears that at least a couple lines in Donald Trump Jr’s speech were lifted from an essay in The American Conservative (full article here), without attribution.

Last night it emerged that lines in Melania Trump’s speech had been lifted from an old Michelle Obama speech.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/jul/19/republican-convention-live-rnc-2016-trump

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Republican convention live: Donald Trump Jr reportedly plagiarizes lines from essay (Original Post) RandySF Jul 2016 OP

No Plagiarism thelordofhell Jul 2016 #1

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1. No Plagiarism

Wed Jul 20, 2016, 12:42 AM

Jul 2016

The same writer who wrote that article, wrote the speech.....