New York Times reports plagiarism in Trump textbooks

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New York Times reports plagiarism in Trump textbooks

By Ben Kamisar at the Hill

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/285991-new-york-times-reports-plagiarism-in-trump-textbooks

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At least 20 pages of Donald Trump's textbooks for real estate and wealth seminars were plagiarized from another book written 10 years earlier, according to The New York Times.

The Times compared an an excerpt from the Trump Institute's 2006 book, "Billionaire's Road Map to Success,” alongside the 1995 book, "Real Estate Mastery System: Mortgage and Finance,” and found a more than 100-word passage was lifted from the older book. The Democratic super-PAC American Bridge first noticed the similarity, according to the Times.

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At the time the 2006 book was published, Trump had appeared in an infomercial lauding the series and implying that its wealth and real estate tips came from or were endorsed by the businessman himself.

"I put all of my concepts that have worked so well for me, new and old, into our seminar. And people are loving it. People are really doing well in it and are loving it," he said in a clip of the infomercial available online.


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[Maeve]

1. I am so surprised to hear this!

...said absolutely no one, ever.