White House Statement Plagiarizes ExxonMobil

[DonViejo]

A White House press release on a new ExxonMobil expansion appears to have lifted an entire paragraph from ExxonMobil’s press release on the expansion, The Washington Post reports. The two passages are identical, with the exception of the words “United States,” which appear in full in the White House statement and abbreviated in ExxonMobil’s release. Both passages laud ExxonMobil’s expansion into new facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The ExxonMobil statement was released at 3:10 p.m. Monday, while the White House statement appears to have been released shortly afterward. President Donald Trump tweeted a link to the White House statement at 4:19 p.m. The Trump administration has direct ties to ExxonMobil, whose former CEO Rex Tillerson is now secretary of State.

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[randome]

1. Ah-ha! Now we know what the lust of my life, Meredith McIver has been up to!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[malaise]

2. Never in history has the WH been staffed by such

fucking morons

[BumRushDaShow]

3. .

Not an original thought in their heads.

[MoonRiver]

5. They don't have time to think. They're tweeting!

[BumRushDaShow]

6. But guess who's not tweeting?

https://twitter.com/StephenBannon?lang=en

last tweet was in 2014.

[ecstatic]

4. That's not the worst part- Trump is now taking credit for Exxon jobs

that were announced 4 years ago, back in 2013.

The White House release quoted President Trump saying that ExxonMobil’s investment plan “is exactly the kind of investment, economic development and job creation that will help put Americans back to work.”


But Exxon’s investment plan was launched in 2013 — four years ago. And while the White House was hailing the investment program by ExxonMobil and talked about Trump’s “promise to bring back jobs to America,” General Motors on Monday announced the layoff of 1,100 workers in Michigan.

Some oil analysts were not impressed. “There is nothing new or newsworthy here,” said Pavel Molchanov, energy analyst with the investment firm Raymond James. “At the risk of stating the obvious, plenty of companies, across various industries, have been touting their U.S. job creation efforts in order to get on the Trump administration’s good side — even when the underlying job creation has little or nothing to do with Washington policy. This is simply the latest example of that.”