Trump Column Appears To Have Plagiarized Chunks Of Carson Op-ed

[DonRedwood]

Source: tpm

Large swaths of text from an op-ed penned by Republican frontrunner Donald Trump appear to be pulled almost word for word from a column written by Ben Carson just days earlier for another U.S. territorial newspaper.

The sweeping similarities between the columns were first reported Wednesday by the conservative news site Daily Caller.....
In other portions of the texts, the only alterations made between Carson and Trump’s versions were spelling and grammar.

“I am saddened to hear that every day, more and more of you in the territories and commonwealths are leaving your families and homes because the healthcare and educational systems are inadequate,” Carson wrote.

“I am saddened to hear that, every day, more and more citizens in the territories and commonwealths are leaving their families and homes because the health care and educational systems are inadequate,” Trump said in his column.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-plagarism-carson-op-ed

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Somehow I doubt many of his followers would care....

[LisaM]

1. Ha! If I was going to plagiarize someone....

Ben Carson is not the first person who springs to mind.

[DonRedwood]

2. i wish i could rec this

thanks for the chuckle

[keithbvadu2]

3. Obviously, you got it wrong.........

Trump wrote the article for Ben and now he is using it for himself.

Ben pre-plagiarized it because it was so great.

Yeah! Yeah! That's it.

[houston16revival]

4. They can read each others' minds

telepathically

What is Trump hiding under that hair?

[woodsprite]

5. Well, since Carson will be his employee,

I'm sure he feels he has rights to anything Carson says, writes, or thinks.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Trump made a felonious offer of a position in his wannabe gubmnt to Ben Carson. . nt

[woodsprite]

9. I hope he gets caught on it.

Instead of acknowledging it but letting it slide.

[olddad56]

7. Carson must have stolen the original copy of the op-ed from the Trump campaign...

and beat Donald to the press. Poor Donald, plagiarized again. Some how, this has to be Bernie's fault.

[WhiteTara]

12. Don't you mean Hillary's?

[bluestateguy]

8. His stormtroopers won't care

Won't make a damn bit of difference, and will be forgotten in a day or two.

[skepticscott]

10. And Carson can hardly protest

with Trump's massive dick in his mouth.

[tavernier]

11. Obviously trump wrote it.

He has a lot of words.

[vkkv]

13. I doubt either of them wrote that. Carson had some staff a few weeks ago. _______n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

14. Why is it every time I read something like this

I get the feeling Trump is starring in an alien TV show called "Who Wants to Be An Earth President?"