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.
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“Our schools use to be an elevator to the middle class, now they’re stalled on the ground floor”.
“Nice try Clinton machine – Francis Buckley is a friend of Don Jr.’s and worked with him on the speech”, senior campaign communications aide Jason Miller tweeted.
The line Trump Jr. used in his speech summed up the biggest issue for Buckley in this election: not economic inequality, per se, but a lack of upward mobility.
Buckley did not immediately respond to a question about whether Trump Jr. knew about the recycled lines.
He added to Business Insider, “I was a speechwriter for this speech”.
But while the Melania Trump controversy continues to resonate, the accusations against Trump Jr. quickly were dispelled Tuesday night. Buckley, which was published just a few months ago.
In his essay, Buckley wrote, “That anger at the class society we have become explains the rise of Donald Trump”. Not necessarily blatant plagiarism, but not necessarily right either.
Most candidates and presidents have speech writers, but Sister Jan still says previous work should be credited. The stakes are high, and speakers’ words will naturally be scrutinized – surely saying those ideas in a different-enough way, or at least attributing them instead of passing them off as original would have been a good idea.
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This latest distraction comes after Melania Trump delivered a speech on Monday, which appeared to be plagiarized from Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic convention speech.
