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[quote=Anonymous]WASHINGTON —  Delaware Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., trying to control mounting damage to his drive for the Democratic presidential nomination, admitted Thursday that he had committed plagiarism during his first year of law school but called the controversy surrounding his borrowed passages in recent speeches “much ado about nothing.”
In his most detailed response to the controversy, which began during the weekend, Biden told a news conference that he “did something very stupid 23 years ago,” by lifting five pages from a law review article for a brief he wrote in a legal methods class at the University of Syracuse.

But he said he cleared his record by repeating the course and getting an “F” changed to a “B.”

“I was mistaken, but I was not in any way malevolent,” Biden said.

He also defended several instances of using material from other people’s speeches, saying all candidates do it. He said fellow Democratic candidate Jesse Jackson has telephoned him to say that he, too, has used unattributed material. “I don’t know anybody who has run for public office who has tried to communicate a great idea who hasn’t gone back and used other great ideas” to convey a message, Biden said.

“I am being honest,” he said. “The American people will judge.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-18-mn-5748-story.html

People who have to tell you that they’re honest aren’t showing you that they’re honest.

Biden has always been a liar.

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