Biden accused of plagiarizing DNC acceptance speech from final letter of dying Canadian politician Jack Layton

JOE Biden has been accused of stealing the conclusion of his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention from a dead Canadian politician.

“For love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear. Light is more powerful than dark,” Biden said as he formally became the Democratic presidential nominee.

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Joe Biden has been accused once again of plagiarismCredit: Splash News

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Biden has reportedly lifted wording from a letter by the late Jack Layton, a Canadian politicianCredit: Splash News

But Canada’s National Post quickly pointed out that the turn of phrase echoed words written by the late left-wing leader Jack Layton in a letter before he died.

In his letter, Layton wrote: “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair.”

However, the paper reported that Layton in-turn may have copied the wording in his letter from a 1916 speech made by prime minister Wilfrid Laurier.

This is not the first time Biden has been accused of poaching wording from others.

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Biden is said to have ripped off wording from Jack Layton, who is also said to have ripped off his letter from prime minister Wilfrid LaurierCredit: Getty Images – Getty

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Wilfrid Laurier was Canada’s seventh prime ministerCredit: Getty Images – Getty

Most famously, Biden, while running as a Democratic presidential candidate in 1987, nabbed his closing lines in a debate from UK Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock – even claiming some of the British politician’s family history.

The “gaffe machine” ultimately withdrew as a Democratic presidential candidate — leading Michael Dukakis to face off against George H.W. Bush.

That same year, Biden also admitted to The New York Times that he failed a class in 1965 when he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first year at Syracuse University College of Law.

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In 2019, Biden’s campaign admitted it had nabbed wording from nonprofit publications while making points about climate change and education, the Washington Post reported at the time.

Last year, Slate reported that the former veep’s campaigned shelled out $4,200 for iThenticate – a plagiarism prevention software that seemingly didn’t catch Biden’s latest gaffe.