Not the first time.
Plugs first ran for President clear back in 1988. His campaign was derailed when he got caught plagiarizing a speech by the British pol Neil Kinnock.
John Sasso, an aide to Michael Stanley Dukakis, who went on to win the 1988 'Rat nomination, was credited with the pinch, thereby contributing the verb "sassoize" to the language.
He was caught plagiarizing in law school. They were going to kick him out of school but for some reason didn’t. To bad, we could have been done with him then.