Trump Appears To Have Heavily Plagiarized Op-Ed From Carson

[sinkspur]

Trump Appears To Have Heavily Plagiarized Op-Ed From Carson

ALEX PAPPAS

2:31 PM 03/16/2016

An op-ed penned this month by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and published online appears to be blatantly plagiarized from an article written days earlier under former rival Ben Carson’s name, The Daily Caller has determined.

The similar op-eds were written on the topic of America’s territories and commonwealths.

Both pieces appear under the by-lines of the candidates. Carson’s piece, published Feb. 26, was published in the Marianas Variety in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Trump’s op-ed — published in the Pacific Daily News in Guam, part of the USA Today Network — was published 12 days later on March 9.

In some cases, full sentences and phrases — word-for-word — are lifted from Carson’s. In others, some words and phrases are changed and added.

Take the opening lines of both pieces as an example.

Carson’s piece begins: “MANY Americans do not appreciate the patriotism exhibited by our brothers and sisters in the Territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.”

Here’s how Trump’s piece beings (with the exact wording from Carson’s piece bolded): “Throughout the history of our nation, the patriotism exhibited by our brothers and sisters in the Territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands has often gone unacknowledged.”


At another point, Trump’s op-ed uses, word-for-word, two identical sentences from Carson’s article: “Medical care in the American territories and commonwealths has historically lagged far behind the continental states, and Obamacare has only made the situation worse. Good health is an essential part of a thriving society and economy, and citizens of the territories and commonwealths deserve policies that work.”


Carson dropped out of the Republican race for president after a disappointing finish in the March 1 SEC primary. Ahead of Florida’s primary, the former neurosurgeon endorsed Trump last week.

Reached by phone, Carson adviser Armstrong Williams declined to comment other than to reference some of Carson’s old campaign staffers and say: “There’s no question they’re working for Mr. Trump now.”

The Daily Caller has reached out to Trump’s campaign.

See the similarities below:





Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/16/trump-appears-to-have-heavily-plagiarized-op-ed-from-carson/#ixzz4360XQkHM

[sinkspur]

Habitual liars lie habitually.

[Scottftlc]

Habitual liars lie habitually.

OCD sufferers obsess, it's what they do.

[sinkspur]

OCD sufferers obsess, it's what they do.

It's a full time job just keeping up with Trump's lies.  Add plagiarism to his stable of prevarications.

[Wingnut]

Trump coud not have penned that speach.  He rarely uses multisyllabic words and speaks/writes at a 4th grade level. 
So I'm sure the similarities are purely cut and paste.

[jmyrlefuller]

OCD sufferers obsess, it's what they do.

28 years ago, this same issue killed Joe Biden's dreams of the Presidency.

But this is exactly what I talk about when I talk about Trump supporters defying logic and reason: one brings up a legitimate case of theft, and the response is to call the accuser mentally ill.

[A-Lert]

 

[flowers]

[Frank Cannon]

I think the rule is that once an endorsement is bought and payed for, all that endorsing persons thoughts and property revert to the purchaser.

[massadvj]

I don't doubt that this is the work of a former Carson staffer now working for Trump.  In all likelihood, he or she actually penned both pieces.