Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed BartletArgentina’s rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the United Nations general assembly from the political drama The West Wing.“It seems like fiction, but it isn’t,” the left-leaning Buenos Aires newspaper Página 12 reported on Friday, claiming Milei had “copied, word for word, a monologue” by the television show’s fictional president, Josiah “Jed” Bartlet. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/argentina-javier-milei-accused-plagiarising-un-speech-west-wing
Author : Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
Publish date : 2024-10-04 16:04:56
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