Vice President Kamala Harris allegedly plagiarized significant portions of her 2009 book on criminal justice, according to an investigation conducted by Austrian plagiarism expert Dr. Stefan Weber and confirmed by journalist Christopher Rufo.
[RELATED: Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay Accused of Plagiarism…]
“We independently confirmed multiple violations, which are comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis,” said Rufo in a thread on X.
Vice President Harris’s book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer, co-authored with Joan Hamilton, contained over a dozen alleged instances of plagiarism, some minor and some severe.
The book released as Harris was preparing to run for Attorney General of California.
Rufo pointed to a 2008 NBC News report that Harris apparently copied from, changing only minor details without proper citation.
The book somewhat rearranged the information from the article and added a few extra words or phrases but kept a significant amount of verbatim text and did not substantially change the material.
In a seemingly more blatant example of plagiarism, a passage in Harris’s book almost exactly mirrored a passage in a press release from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
The only differences between Harris’ book and the press release were the single word “additionally” added by Harris, her use of the word “percent” instead of the percentage symbol, and her use of the full names of states rather than their postal abbreviations.
Harris even copied two passages from Wikipedia, only changing “in order to” to “to” and changing “offering” to “it offered.”
“There is certainly a breach of standards here. Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism,” said Rufo in his report.
The new allegations surrounding Harris’s book mirror the plagiarism controversy that plagued former Harvard President Claudine Gay and ultimately forced her to resign.
Rufo produced evidence suggesting that Gay plagiarized major portions of her doctoral thesis.
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What else would you expect from a person who cannot string six words together in an interview ?
Who is really surprised by this, look how she got to where she is today.
Just another Democrat. No truth here folks!!!
Her defense is that the book was written/plagiarized by her co-author 100%, because, “as everyone knows, I’m too lazy and illiterate to write a book, and even plagiarism requires a functioning brain (cackle, cackle)”.
Watch the Tucker interview on x now. Harris has never had a privet job, she’s been on the government tit her whole life.
Or in the case of Willy Brown, she has been “the government blank.”