NEW from me: The controversial 1776 Report contains at least three instances of recycled and copied work.

An entire page of the report was lifted, near-verbatim and unattributed, from a 2008 article by one of the Commission's members. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-1776-report-plagiarism-460464
A big chunk of Trump’s 1776 report appears lifted from an author’s prior work

The report was meant to be the definitive conservative rendering of U.S. history. But historians have slammed it as sloppy and slanted.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-1776-report-plagiarism-460464
in internet terms, the 1776 Report was a right-wing copypasta
There's several instances in the article, but here's one of the most blatant lifts:
Side note: In my request for comment, I did ask the Commission's chair and executive director, both of Hillsdale College, if using past work without attribution would be an acceptable practice in Hillsdale's academic honor code. I did not get an answer on that.
i'm just standing athwart history, yelling [CITATION NEEDED]
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