Clay Travis Bizarrely Accuses Biden of Plagiarizing Ronald Reagan After Reciting Same Historic Facts About D-Day
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President Joe Biden continued to observe the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Friday with a presentation at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France. And Clay Travis was shocked to find out that he talked about the events that occurred at Pointe du Hoc because former President Ronald Reagan also talked about those events.
Travis, who founded the conservative sports site OutKick, tweeted that Biden “essentially plagiarized” Reagan’s Pointe du Hoc remarks from the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
Joe Biden essentially plagiarized Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 speech at Pointe du Hoc today in Normandy. Watch these clips side by side. Wow: pic.twitter.com/jeGgTS2Nnm
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 7, 2024
Couple of things — first thing, two people talking about the same event is not plagiarism. Second thing, plagiarism would imply that the two speeches shared passages that were exactly the same, if not remarkably similar. Here are the remarks made by Biden and Reagan at their respective Point du Hoc commemorations, exactly as Davis presented them. Keep in mind, Travis found the remarkable similarity of these sets of words very damning:
Biden: At last the hour had come. Dawn. 6th of June, 1944…
Reagan: At dawn on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944…
Biden: Two hundred and twenty five American Rangers arrived by ship, jumped into the waves and stormed the beach.
Reagan: Two hundred and twenty five Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.
Biden: Gunfire rained above them, but still, they kept coming. Nazi grenades thrown from above exploded against the cliffs, but still, they kept coming.
Reagan: The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs, shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades, and the American Rangers began to climb.
Biden: They launched their ladders, their ropes and grappling hooks, and they began to climb.
Reagan: They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up.
Biden: When the Nazis cut their ladders, the Rangers used the ropes and the Nazis cut the ropes. The Rangers used their hands.
Reagan: When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a ranger would grab another and begin his climb again.
Biden: And inch by inch, foot by foot, yard by yard, the Rangers clawed, literally clawed their way up this mighty precipice until the last they reached the top.
Reagan: Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top.
Biden: They breached Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, and they turned, in that one effort, the tide of the war that began to save the world.
Reagan: And in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe.
“Essentially plagiarized” or just two speeches about the same battle? The answer is the latter. Literally, nothing here is plagiarized. Everyone, be on your way.
