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Donald Trump speech “plagiarised Hussein” Inauguration speech borrows heavily from former Iraqi President, critics claim D. K. Tator such a day - unless it be in a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop President Donald Trump appears to - he draws on himself the wrath of have been caught plagiarising material Allah, and his abode is Hell, an evil refuge!’ in his inauguration speech. Political commentator Larry VeThe 16-minute address, delivered to a crowd of, quite literally, some people nal was among the first the point on the 20th January, appears to have out that President Trump’s hubristic lifted a number of lines verbatim from declarations against the enemies of Saddam Hussein’s 2003 speech to the Allah sounded familiar. Kuwaiti people. President Trump continued to Speaking of the importance of social raise eyebrows throughout the cohesion and unity, President Trump speech. Later, while pointing out declared that ‘We, the citizens of Amer- the importance of reaping America’s ica, are now joined in a great national natural resources, President Trump effort to rebuild our country and to re- said that ‘For many decades, we’ve store its promise for all of our people. enriched foreign industry at the If any do turn his back on this task on
expense of American industry, and from now on, we will do everything we can to put our industry first. The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude.’ On Tuesday morning, Trump’s chief-strategist, Steve Bannon, hosted a media conference where he scolded the media for its dishonest and biased reporting on the matter, saying that they constituted ‘a Zionist and imperialist conspiracy aimed at liquidating Iraq’s revival and checking its development for decades.’
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