Clips of President-elect Joe Biden’s speech in the course of the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August are once more recirculating on Fb, solely this time they’re accompanied by allegations of plagiarism.
“Joe Biden’s speech stolen from Trump!” reads the title of the video revealed by radio host Mark Kaye. “I imply, it’s not the primary time he’s plagiarized a speech…”
Biden has come below scrutiny previously for plagiarism — the act of stealing or passing off another person’s phrases or concepts as your personal — however we didn’t discover something to assist he lifted traces from Trump for his DNC speech.
Extra broadly, the boys have taken completely different positions on how to answer the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has mentioned coronavirus precautions shouldn’t maintain again the U.S. financial system and that states ought to take the lead on testing, masks necessities and extra. He’s additionally advocated for the speedy growth of vaccines.
Biden, in the meantime, has advocated for nationwide mask-wearing and bodily distancing. He needs to dramatically improve entry to speedy testing and he helps extra help for hospitals and public well being employees.
The video on Fb cuts between Kaye’s commentary and several other clips from Biden, together with the next statements from his Aug. 20 speech earlier than the DNC:
“In the event you entrust me with the presidency, I’ll draw on the most effective of us, not the worst. I’ll be an ally of the sunshine, not the darkness. It’s time for us, for we the folks, to return collectively.”
“If I’m your president on day one we’ll implement the nationwide technique I’ve been laying out since March.”
“We’ll develop and deploy speedy exams with outcomes out there instantly.”
“We’ll make the medical provides and protecting gear that our nation wants and we’ll make them right here in America so we’ll by no means once more be on the mercy of China or different overseas nations in an effort to shield our personal folks.”
“We’ll be certain our colleges have the sources they should be open, secure and efficient.”
Kaye didn’t present any proof within the video that Biden poached these traces from President Donald Trump. Reasonably, he criticized the previous vp for promising insurance policies Kaye argued Trump had already enacted.
Across the 3:15 mark, Kaye mentioned: “Each single factor he’s talked about thus far, each single factor he’s talked about — speedy testing, getting it on the market shortly, American-made ventilators and provides attending to the locations the place they’re wanted, getting the colleges open in a secure atmosphere the place youngsters can study — each single factor he identified is one thing that the present occupant of the Oval Workplace has already completed. It’s like he actually simply watched a Donald Trump press convention, took notes and mentioned, ‘Oh that’s good. I’ma inform those that’s my plan.”
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We searched Factba.se, which archives speeches and public feedback made by Trump, for cases when he both mentioned the identical issues Biden did within the Fb video, or mentioned one thing very shut.
Whereas Trump has mentioned the pandemic, he didn’t make any of the statements that Biden made.
On the lookout for “ally of the sunshine,” for instance, we solely discovered an Aug. 27 speech delivered after Biden’s DNC tackle during which Trump remarked that Biden “may declare he’s an ally of the sunshine.”
The phrase “darkness” appeared in 38 addresses, however none in the identical context that Biden used them — apart from when Trump was referring to Biden’s speech.
Biden mentioned: “We’ll develop and deploy speedy exams with outcomes out there instantly.”
Trump has talked about speedy exams publicly 15 instances, based on the Factba.se database. On Aug. 11, he mentioned that his administration had “delivered over 1,800 speedy point-of-care testing gadgets to nursing houses” and that officers had been within the technique of delivering such gadgets to all Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing houses.
On July 28, he mentioned “we made main investments in new speedy point-of-care exams.”
Biden mentioned: “We’ll make the medical provides and protecting gear that our nation wants and we’ll make them right here in America so we’ll by no means once more be on the mercy of China or different overseas nations in an effort to shield our personal folks.”
Trump has talked about medical provides and protecting gear however, based on Factba.se, he hasn’t talked about them in reference to China.
And Trump has additionally spoken publicly about opening colleges safely, however he didn’t say, as Biden did, that “we’ll be certain our colleges have the sources they should be open, secure and efficient.”
Our ruling
Invoking plagiarism, the submit claims, “Joe Biden’s speech stolen from Trump!” We discovered no related passages from Biden’s speech originating in a Trump speech. And, the 2 candidates have important coverage variations as effectively.
We price the declare that Biden plagiarized Trump False.
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