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Trump Appears To Have Heavily Plagiarized Op Ed from Carson
The Daily Caller ^ | 3-16-2016 | Alez Pappas

Posted on 03/18/2016 10:16:34 AM PDT by Spunky

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


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To: Jeff Head

I don’t find anything nefarious involved. Just politics as usual that this candidate supposedly isn’t about.


61 posted on 03/18/2016 10:45:14 AM PDT by John W (Under One Year And Counting!)
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To: odawg

I wish people would stop attacking fellow freepers by calling them names like cruz-bots or trumpets. I know I have been guilty of the trumpet or trumptsters thing, but I am trying to refrain. It isn’t helpful.


62 posted on 03/18/2016 10:46:35 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: dsc

Real men don’t refer to women as a ‘nice piece of a**.’


63 posted on 03/18/2016 10:46:58 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: dsc

Real men don’t jump out of their skin when a 90 year old man moves in his chair.


64 posted on 03/18/2016 10:47:44 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Jeff Head
"Maybe the reporters ought to do a little more journalistic investigation and see if Carson gave his permission?

"Or maybe Carson loaned him the same staffer who wrote it for him?"

Did you even bother to read the articles?

Trump's plagiarized op-ed was published 2 days before Carson endorsed him. Carson never says he gave Trump permission, he just says he doesn't care if Trump used his words.

Like I said if it was anyone else there would be heck to pay.

65 posted on 03/18/2016 10:48:35 AM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: John W

Not nefarious but shows a lack of character. Why did he do this? Because he knew he could?

Why not write something from his own heart of just quote Ben outright and say, ‘my friend, Ben, wrote this and I agree 100%.’


66 posted on 03/18/2016 10:49:29 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Spunky

So?

Do da name “Biden” mean anythin’ to ya,Daily Caller?

Don’t remember seeing anything about VICE PRESIDENT Idiot lately.

So, why not STFU?


67 posted on 03/18/2016 10:49:35 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Iron Munro

How true!


68 posted on 03/18/2016 10:50:12 AM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: altura

“Why didn’t Trump get one of those ‘great people’ he’s gonna hire to change it enough so that it wasn’t so obviously plagiarized?”

Why do you even give a crap? This is an op-ed in a newspaper, not something like Martin Luther King’s doctoral thesis.


69 posted on 03/18/2016 10:50:47 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: John Valentine

Could be indeed. For Cruz, that issue got owned and/or co-opted by Trump. For the general population, Trump owns the illegal immigration/build a wall position.

I like Cruz too, but as the #2 choice, which if Cruz really thinks about it, would be the best place for him right now.

He’s got so many more election cycles where he’s viable, a VP for 4 or 8 years would put him in a great spot, imo.


70 posted on 03/18/2016 10:52:31 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Da Coyote

You do know Biden withdrew from the Presidential race within a month of being exposed of his plagiarism scandal, right?


71 posted on 03/18/2016 10:53:25 AM PDT by diamond6 ("I'm going to do EXACTLY what I told you I'm going to do!" - Ted Cruz)
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To: Spunky

If Carson has announced publically that he does not care if Trump uses his words...then there is no story here.

Who knows when Carson originally gave that approval? Maybe he did so when they met for the endorsement.

Carson’s own words about the matter suck the story right out of it.


72 posted on 03/18/2016 10:54:02 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: altura

“Real men don’t refer to women as a ‘nice piece of a**.’”

Are you a man?

Are you a heterosexual?

Have you ever associated with real men?

Of course men think that, and to say it is more than common in America.

If you really think this is terrible, then I think you need to check in to your nearest feminism detox center.


73 posted on 03/18/2016 10:55:20 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Spunky

Search again, I’ve seen it three times...


74 posted on 03/18/2016 10:55:30 AM PDT by heights
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To: DoughtyOne

I did search and put the exact title words into the search bar and selected title, and nothing came up. I see now it is coming up. Sorry!


75 posted on 03/18/2016 10:57:39 AM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: lee martell

Exact same.


76 posted on 03/18/2016 10:58:19 AM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: altura

“Real men don’t jump out of their skin when a 90 year old man moves in his chair.”

I am alive only because sudden movements in the periphery of my vision make me jump.

If you laugh at things like that, then I can only think you have never known the feeling you get between the time somebody aims at you and the time the weapon discharges.


77 posted on 03/18/2016 10:58:26 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Spunky

Is that all you got?

Dr. Carson threw his hat in the ring, and came out on the short end. So it goes.

Trump recognized the real value that Dr. Carson can provide to an administration and extended an olive branch to him. These are the good guys, stop trying to tear them down.


78 posted on 03/18/2016 10:59:30 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: altura

And if you want to talk about “real men,” let me tell you a “real man” joke from the time before feminism metastasized.

Q. How does a real man know when he has satisfied a woman?

A. A real man doesn’t care.


79 posted on 03/18/2016 11:01:12 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Trumpinator
"That was not my opinion"

I don't recall saying it was your opinion.

Yes Carson and his staff are working with him NOW, but I didn't see where Carson said they were working for him before Carson endorsed him.

Like I pointed out Trumps article appeared March 9th and Carson didn't endorse until March 11.

80 posted on 03/18/2016 11:01:45 AM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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