President Biden was criticized by conservatives on Friday for a speech he gave in Pont-du-Hoc, France, on the anniversary of the Normandy landings that was too similar to one given there by former President Reagan 40 years ago.
“Unreal,” Young Americans for Liberty Post to X On Friday, Biden said, “Biden’s Normandy landings speech appears to be merely a restatement of Reagan’s Normandy landings speech.”
“Joe Biden essentially plagiarized Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 speech delivered today at Pont-du-Hoc in Normandy,” Outkick founder Clay Travis said. Post to X“Check out these clips side by side. Amazing.”
“The Biden campaign is trying to make Biden look like Reagan,” said Scott Walker, a former Republican governor of Wisconsin. Posted in X. “But he was not just a great communicator because of the things he said. He was a great communicator because he believed what he said and made us believe it too. Joe Biden will never be as good a leader as Ronald Reagan!”
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President Biden stood next to the Pointe du Hoc memorial in Normandy, France on Friday, June 7, and delivered a speech about the legacy of Pointe du Hoc and democracy around the world. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Walker continues: Another Post“Biden was forced to withdraw from the presidential race 37 years ago because of this kind of plagiarism. He should withdraw again this time.”
“Why Did He Do This?” Marc Thiessen, Former Bush Speechwriter Post to X“Why directly compare him to President Reagan, a man who no other president could match when it comes to telling this story, let alone a president as inarticulate as President Biden?”
“Joe Biden: Once a plagiarist, always a plagiarist,” conservative communicator Steve Guest Posted in X.
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President Biden arrived on June 7, 2024, to speak with Scott Desjardins, director of the Normandy American Cemetery, at Pont-du-Hoc, the site where U.S. Rangers scaled cliffs more than 100 feet high on D-Day to destroy heavily fortified German positions. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Both speeches similarly described the events of the D-Day invasion. Social media I’ve shown clips of the two speeches side-by-side.
“The hour has finally come. Dawn. June 6th, 1944,” Biden began, echoing President Reagan’s “Dawn on the Morning of June 6th, 1944” speech.
“225 American Rangers arrived by boat, jumped into the surf and stormed the beach,” Biden said, while Reagan said, “225 Rangers jumped off a British landing craft and ran to the bottom of the cliffs.”
“They threw down ladders and ropes and grappling hooks and they started climbing,” Biden said, while Reagan added, “They threw rope ladders over the cliff and they started climbing themselves.”
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President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron attend a U.S. ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in the Normandy landings during World War II at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach in northwestern France, June 6, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
“When the Nazis cut the ladder, the Rangers used the rope, and the Nazis cut the rope,” Biden said. “The Rangers used their hands.”
In Reagan’s speech he said, “If a Ranger falls, another climbs in his place. If one rope breaks, a Ranger grabs another and begins the climb again.”
Biden continued, “And so the rangers literally crawled up this enormous cliff, step by step, yard by yard, until they finally reached the top.”
“Soon, one by one, the Rangers were winning,” Reagan said.
“They breached Hitler’s Atlantic Wall and, with that blow, turned the tide of a war that was begun to save the world,” Biden said.
“And by seizing this solid ground at the top of the cliff, they began to retake the European continent,” Reagan said.
A few days before Biden’s speech, Politico Playbook reported that “Biden is looking for a zipper moment.” [Aides] “Reagan’s visit has been closely studied, and is intended to capture the attention of a similarly distracted and disillusioned public and remind them of just how much is still at stake.”
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President Reagan speaks at a press conference (Screenshot/Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Research Institute)
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After Travis I defended my position In response to an article by left-leaning media outlet Mediaite, Biden argued that he did not plagiarize or copy anything from Reagan in his speech, but rather detailed what happened during the invasion.
During his speech, Biden repeatedly mentioned the “instinct” to “walk away” from democracy, as he recounted the heroism of the Army Rangers who seized Pointe du Hoc on the day of the Normandy landings more than 80 years ago.
“We talk about democracy, we talk about American democracy. We talk a lot about the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What we don’t talk about is how hard it is, how many ways we are asked to walk away, how many instincts there are to walk away,” Biden said. “The most natural instinct is to walk away.”
