A tweet from The Daily Show noted a few similarities with Trump's words and those of F.H. Buckley. | AP Photo Donald Trump Jr.'s speech borrows a line

For the second night in a row, a speech from a member of the Trump family has been found to have some particular resemblance to a previously published work. But this time, the author of the original source is more than fine with it.

During his address to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, Donald Trump Jr. remarked, "Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class. Now they are stalled on the ground floor."


"They're like Soviet-era department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers," Trump Jr. said.

A tweet from The Daily Show noted a few similarities with Trump's words and those of F.H. Buckley in an American Conservative article published May 2, titled "Trump vs. the New Class."

What should be an elevator to the upper class is stalled on the ground floor. Part of the fault for this may be laid at the feet of the system's entrenched interests: the teachers' unions and the higher-education professoriate," Buckley wrote in that article. "Our schools and universities are like the old Soviet department stores whose mission was to serve the interests of the sales clerks and not the customers."

As Twitter exploded with surprise, Buckley tweeted in response, "Except it wasn't stealing..."

"I was a speechwriter for this speech. So I'm afraid there's no issue here," Buckley told Business Insider, according to a tweet from the outlet's executive editor.

Except it wasn't stealing... — Frank Buckley (@fbuckley) July 20, 2016

Trump spokesman Jason Miller also said the latest flap was much ado about nothing. "Nice try Clinton machine – Francis Buckley is a friend of Don Jr.’s and worked with him on the speech," Miller tweeted, adding, "Your time would be better spent searching for Crooked Hillary’s missing emails rather than disparaging a real American Patriot."

The Trump campaign spent a large part of its Tuesday battling allegations of plagiarism in Melania Trump's speech, which was found to have several lines uttered by Michelle Obama during her 2008 Democratic convention speech.