Trump campaign accused of plagiarizing content on its website

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A story published in 2012 by Boise State Public Radio KBSX appeared without attribution on Donald Trump's Idaho-centric webpage, the station's general manager says, and the author is afraid the outdated information will confuse voters.

"Clearly we were not contacted by the Trump campaign for permission to use old content from our website," Peter Morrill told Idaho Reports. "It's a 4-year-old story. Over the last four years, there have been changes to the election laws, and it's sad that they took the opportunity to use an old story that at the time was in fact accurate, but now because of changes in the election laws, is not the case now."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.