One day after a plagiarism scandal rocked the first night of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump Jr.'s speech at the RNC on Tuesday stirred up controversy when it was discovered that a portion of his speech was borrowed from a May 2016 article in The American Conservative.
After the similarities were picked up, reporters were comparing the similarities to Melania Trump's borrowings from Michelle Obama the previous night.
However, F.H. Buckley, who wrote the article in question, told Talking Points Memo that he also wrote for Trump Jr. "I was a principal speechwriter for the speech," he told the site. "So it's not an issue."
Buckley also weighed in on Twitter, denying that the re-use of his words was "stealing."
Once the authorship issue was cleared up, many still remained critical of Trump Jr. for relying on already-published words in such a high-profile talk, characterizing it as "sloppy" and "unprofessional."
