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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: Spunky

I think it’s best to pick a key word from the title, and search for that under the title listing.

If someone makes one mistake in the whole title, the search will miss it.

I appreciate the nice response.

Take care.


81 posted on 03/18/2016 11:04:11 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Spunky
If this had of been anyone else there would have been criminal charges brought.

Calm down, girl.

82 posted on 03/18/2016 11:06:59 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The Democrats are going into full Alinsky mode against Trump.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Well cheer up Sore Cruzerman is a curable affliction. :-)


83 posted on 03/18/2016 11:10:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DoodleDawg
"The idea that Trump actually wrote the op-ed is the funny part. In fact I doubt that Carson did either. Both probably hired the same guy to crank out the column and he cut some corners."

You are probably right.

Do you recall though when a writer (can't think of his name) was caught plagiarizing and how the Freepers went all bonkers thinking the guy should be basically strung up?

84 posted on 03/18/2016 11:11:26 AM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: Ajnin

Yeah, it’s kinda fun to see the zombies twist and turn.

By the way, I hope Trump promised Ben Carson something really good and, most of all, I hope he got it in writing notarized by seven attorneys.


85 posted on 03/18/2016 11:22:18 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Spunky

Oh, please. Desperate much? Are you aware that Carson endorsed Trump?


86 posted on 03/18/2016 11:24:33 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Jeff Chandler

Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery and criminal behavior.


87 posted on 03/18/2016 11:24:43 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Spunky

Yes, Ben should remember he was doing well and leading in Iowa until ...

A few months ago, when Donald Trump referred to Carson as pathological and compared him to a child molester, Carson had nothing to say. He was completely impotent. And in fact, his numbers tanked shortly thereafter.

But, oh, well, Ben.


88 posted on 03/18/2016 11:27:02 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Da Coyote

Sooooo because Biden did it, it’s okay.

Didn’t realize Biden was our role model.


89 posted on 03/18/2016 11:29:06 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Spunky

Trump steals term papers. Cruz steals delegates.


90 posted on 03/18/2016 11:29:32 AM PDT by McGruff (Just another "Low Information Voter" for Trump)
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To: dsc

Why are you on here frantically defending Trump if this was nothing special?


91 posted on 03/18/2016 11:30:19 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Spunky
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.

Carson — who dropped his GOP bid earlier this month and endorsed Trump last week — brushed off the plagiarism accusation, suggesting that Trump’s op-ed may have been written by one of his former staffers.

“I would say that many of the people that worked for me previously are now working for Donald Trump, so that doesn’t surprise me at all,” Carson told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday.

“So, in other words, it could be a direct copy, but it wouldn’t be plagiarism because it could be somebody who actually wrote the first one writing the second one?” Burnett asked.

“Let me put it this way,” Carson said. “It doesn’t bother me at all.”

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-carson-plagiarism-141659130.html

92 posted on 03/18/2016 11:30:33 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: dsc

Yes, I have known a lot of real men and they do not think or talk that way.

That’s aging frat boy talk. And your man, Trump, is a way aging frat boy.


93 posted on 03/18/2016 11:31:40 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: DoodleDawg

Carson — who dropped his GOP bid earlier this month and endorsed Trump last week — brushed off the plagiarism accusation, suggesting that Trump’s op-ed may have been written by one of his former staffers.

“I would say that many of the people that worked for me previously are now working for Donald Trump, so that doesn’t surprise me at all,” Carson told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday.

“So, in other words, it could be a direct copy, but it wouldn’t be plagiarism because it could be somebody who actually wrote the first one writing the second one?” Burnett asked.

“Let me put it this way,” Carson said. “It doesn’t bother me at all.”

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-carson-plagiarism-141659130.html


94 posted on 03/18/2016 11:38:12 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Starstruck
So you are saying Carson plagiarized Trump?

i'm saying the evidence of who published first is not relevant.

95 posted on 03/18/2016 11:38:20 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: savagesusie

Carson — who dropped his GOP bid earlier this month and endorsed Trump last week — brushed off the plagiarism accusation, suggesting that Trump’s op-ed may have been written by one of his former staffers.

“I would say that many of the people that worked for me previously are now working for Donald Trump, so that doesn’t surprise me at all,” Carson told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday.

“So, in other words, it could be a direct copy, but it wouldn’t be plagiarism because it could be somebody who actually wrote the first one writing the second one?” Burnett asked.

“Let me put it this way,” Carson said. “It doesn’t bother me at all.”

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-carson-plagiarism-141659130.html


96 posted on 03/18/2016 11:40:20 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: altura

“Yes, I have known a lot of real men and they do not think or talk that way.”

I believe that you think that to be true.

You must be a woman.


97 posted on 03/18/2016 11:41:18 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: altura

“Why are you on here frantically defending Trump if this was nothing special?”

There’s nothing frantic about my posts. It probably just seems that way because of the high rate of fire.

That said, your question doesn’t make sense.

Why would it be odd to contradict people who are trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill—or, more accurately, out of nothing?


98 posted on 03/18/2016 11:44:09 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Spunky

Does this bother anyone?

An op-ed penned this month by Democrat Presidential candidate, Barack Obama and published online appears to be blatantly plagiarized from an article written days earlier under former rival Hillary Clinton’s name.


99 posted on 03/18/2016 11:50:26 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: savagesusie

The “Daily Caller” isn’t even MSM .. it’s GOPe. It’s conservative Washington’s answer to the leftist Daily Beast.


100 posted on 03/18/2016 11:55:12 AM PDT by EDINVA
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