Donald Trump’s campaign faced questions Tuesday about plagiarism for a second consecutive day – but the writer behind the original work in question said the campaign did nothing wrong.
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But Trump Jr.’s issue is different from Melania’s.
The first lady hopeful after the Monday night convention came under fire for lifting phrases from Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech, but it appears she also borrowed a lyric or two from Rick Astley’s classic song “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
But Buckley quickly responded: “Except it wasn’t stealing…”
“What should be an elevator to the upper class is stalled on the ground floor”, Buckley wrote in his 2016 book, “The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America”. “They’re like Soviet-Era Department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers”, Trump’s son said in his speech Tuesday night.
Last night, Twitter went insane again with “pallegations” that Donald Trump Jr’s speech might be plagiarized; just like his step mom the night before.
That Soviet-department-store comparison closely matched one from George Mason University law professor Frank Buckley.
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Earlier, he tweeted that Trump had not stolen it. “Your time would be better spent searching for Crooked Hillary’s missing emails rather than disparaging a real American Patriot”.
