“Right-wing pundit and U.S. House candidate Burgess Owens, who is scheduled to speak on August 26 at the Republican National Convention, plagiarized numerous passages in his most recent book ‘Why I Stand: From Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism’. Owens lifted material from sources ranging from Wikipedia to a relatively obscure blog for sections on subjects including the NFL and the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), whom he repeatedly smears. Media Matters previously reported that Owens, who is running for Congress in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, appeared on a QAnon program in May and asked for money and support. (Owens did not directly talk about the violence-linked conspiracy theory, which the FBI has said is a potential terrorist threat, but bashed Democrats as evil, among other things)” Media Matters reports.