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President Joe Biden has been accused of plagiarizing a speech by the late former President Ronald Reagan in a speech he gave in France.
The speech was made on Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. The speeches shared online side by side showed the similarities between the two speeches,” Fox News reported, adding:
“At last the hour had come. Dawn. Sixth of June, 1944,” Biden began, similar to Reagan’s speech, in which he said, “At dawn on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944.”
Biden said, “Two hundred and twenty-five American Rangers arrived by ship, jumped into the waves and stormed the beach,” compared to Reagan who said, “Two hundred and twenty-five Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.”
“They launched their ladders, their ropes and grappling hooks, and they began to climb,” Biden said, compared to Reagan who said, “They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up.”
“When the Nazis cut their ladders, the Rangers used the ropes, and the Nazis cut the ropes,” Biden said. “The Rangers used their hands.”
Reagan’s speech said, “When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again.”
Biden continued, “And inch by inch, foot by foot, yard by yard, the Rangers clawed, literally clawed their way up this mighty precipice until at last they reached the top.”
Reagan said, “Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top.”
“They breached Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, and they turned, in that one effort, the tide of the war that began to save the world,” Biden said.
“And in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe,” Reagan said.
VIDEO: Biden Plagiarizes Reagan at Normandy pic.twitter.com/gB6BJA5LRq
— The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) June 7, 2024
Days before the speech,h Politico reported, “Biden Seeks His Gipper Moment. [Aides] have studied the Reagan trip closely and are looking to similarly capture the attention of a distracted, disillusioned public and remind them of how much is still at stake.”
Mediaite attacked conservative Clay Travis for accusing President Biden of plagiarism, but as Travis said on X, formerly Twitter, the president has a history of plagiarism.
“Joe Biden, a man with a well established history of plagiarism in his speeches, went to the same location and used the same language, description and tone of a forty year year old speech by Ronald Reagan. How does the media cover it? By attacking me for pointing it out,” he said.
Many others joined in on the criticism of President Biden.
“Those of us who know history remember that Biden had to drop out of a POTUS run due to plagiarism. He lies, he copies other people’s work as his own, he is nothing but a fake, a phony and a career grifter,” one X user said.
“Plagiarism isn’t anything new for this guy devoid of any kind of profound intellect. In a way it’s a compliment to Ronald Reagan and his speechwriter in choosing to use the speech knowing his own writers were DEI hires,” another said.
“If you ever needed more proof that Joe Biden is being sabotaged from within his own administration, here you go. There is zero chance he is writing his own speeches. Someone loaded up Ronald Reagan’s 1984 speech at Pointe du Hoc today in Normandy,” another user said.
“Ronald Reagan gave the best D-Day speech in history. President Biden planarized it for his D-Day speech. Remember Biden was forced out of the Presidential campaign in 1987 because of a plagiarizing scandal. As Reagan would say, ‘There you go again,’” another said.
