Donald Trump Jr.'s speechwriter borrowed a line from previous essay

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Another night, another accusation of plagiarism.

Fresh off the heels of his stepmother's scandal on Monday, Donald Trump Jr. was called out, first by The Daily Show, for allegedly cribbing lines in his Tuesday night speech from an American Conservative essay penned by F. H. Buckley in May.

As the story started to gain steam, Buckley simply tweeted, "Except it wasn't stealing…" and later told Business Insider: "I was a speechwriter for this speech. So I'm afraid there's no issue here." The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza begs to differ:

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.