Indeed, all in the family .... and the show continues.

Nonsense, those were lines from William Buckley who was the speech writer for Trump Jr.  So William Buckley added some of his famous lines for Trump Jr to use.  now go back to the drawing board!!

hey...the headline say plagiarism...ah just going by the mainstream media

he he he

Donald Trump Jr.'s Speechwriter Defends Recycling Lines for RNC

Donald Jr. Likens American Public School to Soviet-Era Department Stores

For the second night in a row, a speech given by a member of Donald Trump's family is raising eyebrows for lines previously used elsewhere.

Donald Trump Jr. in his headline address at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland delivered a near-exact repetition of a small part of an American Conservative article written by F.H. Buckley, titled "Trump vs. the New Class."

"Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class. Now they're stalled on the ground floor. They're like Soviet-Era Department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers," Trump's son said in his speech Tuesday night.

The line in Buckley's article reads, "Our schools and universities are like the old Soviet department stores whose mission was to serve the interests of the sales clerks and not the customers."

The similarity was first noted in a tweet issued by The Daily Show, and it soon picked up traction on Twitter.

Buckley, who helped write Trump Jr.'s speech, quickly sought to stop any claims of plagiarism, tweeting, "Except it wasn't stealing..."

In an interview with NBC News, Buckley downplayed the similarities. He said he didn't initially think he had copied word-for-word from his original piece, and "even if I had I didn't think it would be problem."

Asked whether he thought to alert Donald Trump, Jr. of the similarity with his own piece, Buckley said "it never occurred to me."

"I'm a speechwriter. This is what speech writers do. You're looking for something improper, I don't see it," Buckley said.

And Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller also downplayed the cribbed line.

Jason Miller ‏@JasonMillerinDC

The latest distraction comes as the Trump campaign is still struggling to explain a more striking incidence of possible plagiarism, in Melania Trump's speech on Monday, which appeared to lift a whole section from Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic convention speech.

Beyond complicating what Republicans had hoped would be a relatively seamless celebration of GOP unity and the effort by Trump's family to humanize him, the scrutiny over the genesis of the Trump family speeches raise new questions about the Trump campaign's organization and readiness for the general election fight.

Speechwriters for past campaigns and presidents expressed alarm at the Trump campaign's apparent lack of basic standards and safeguards for detecting plagiarism.

RiffRaff posted:

he he he

Interesting, indeed.       

Donald Trump, Jr. was the star of the RNC last night.  I am making an early prediction - Future President of the United States. 

Bibi Haniffa posted:

Donald Trump, Jr. was the star of the RNC last night.  I am making an early prediction - Future President of the United States. 

It doesn't take much to impress you

If Trump becomes President, he will wait to see what Putin do, say and write and copy from him.

It will be the other way around.  Putin already has the secret codes to all the files at the Pentagon via a certain compromised server.  America has no access to Russia's files.

Bibi Haniffa posted:

Donald Trump, Jr. was the star of the RNC last night.  I am making an early prediction - Future President of the United States. 

Time for pasture....you are truly in need of a straight-jacket.

Bibi Haniffa posted:

It will be the other way around.  Putin already has the secret codes to all the files at the Pentagon via a certain compromised server.  America has no access to Russia's files.

This is not just propaganda, but out right lies peddled by Bibibski. This "compromised" server she speaks about is Hillary's private email server, which the FBI stated as hack-able but neither him nor Security experts have uncovered evidence of an attack. The speculation is because there were some "spear phishing" emails, but there is no evidence that these were acted on, and for 3 months the server, while it had other security constructs, lacked an Intrusion Prevention system.

So Bibibski, show us where Russia has secret codes, which by the way would never be in emails and are stored encrypted at rest and in flight.

So show us where Russia has some notion of "codes" or shut your trap. You know zilch about IT security so leave conclusions to experts who made their remarks about the threat but not the intrusion.

Bibi Haniffa posted:

Donald Trump, Jr. was the star of the RNC last night.  I am making an early prediction - Future President of the United States. 

those are some nice Gremlins DG

For the occasion, Raymond.

You guys are a bunch of jokers.  Buckley wrote the speech.  The behavior of ther media adds traction to Trump's position that they are as crooked and dishonest as crooked Hillary.  The more they play that game, the more Trump rises.  Trump will be president!!  

ba$eman posted:

Trump will be president!!  

Indeed, Donald Trump will always remain President of his conglomerate but he will not be President of the US_of_A.