Haris Alic 17 Jul 2020
During his final year in the Senate, Joe Biden inserted a speech into the Congressional Record praising a foreign dignitary with language that appears to have been plagiarized, in part, from a well-known national magazine.
In early 2008, fresh off seeing his second campaign for president falter after a disastrous showing in the Iowa Caucuses, Biden returned to the Senate and his chairmanship of the chamber’s Foreign Relations Committee. As part of that role, then-Senator Biden introduced a number of congressional resolutions honoring foreign leaders, especially those representing America’s strategic allies.
One such resolution, introduced in February of that year, honored South Korea’s newly-elected president, Lee Myung-Bak, who would be inaugurated later that month. Biden’s resolution, likely authored by members of either his Senate staff or his aides on the foreign relations committee, praised Lee as an innovative leader, who would be a boon to the already strong relationship between the U.S. and South Korea.
When introducing the measure, Biden inserted a speech prepared by his staff into the Congressional Record congratulating Lee and arguing that “just as [South] Korea is no ordinary ally,†the incoming president “is no ordinary South Korean politician.â€
more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/17/2008-bidens-speech-honoring-foreign-leader-plagiarized-time-magazine/
