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Kamala Harris is, among other things, a crook.
How big a crook depends on your perspective, but the revelation that Harris plagiarized big swathes of her book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. Released in conjunction with her campaign to become the Attorney General of California, the book is still on sale at Amazon, suggesting that she has made some money off the book for a number of years.
It’s not much of a book, admittedly, but Kamala Harris is not much of an intellect either, so what do you expect? The “crook” part comes in because the plagiarism helped her make money. Academic dishonesty is a violation of a code; copyright violations cost you real money if you are caught and sued.
The investigation was conducted by Dr. Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian “plagiarism hunter” who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world. We independently confirmed multiple violations, which are comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard… pic.twitter.com/P9DTpZS4kV— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 14, 2024
Christopher Rufo, who has helped expose other examples of plagiarism in the academic world, did not do this investigation himself but is informing us of the work done by Dr. Stefan Weber, whose shtick is finding plagiarism. What motivated him to examine Harris’ book I cannot say, but he certainly found some egregious examples of Harris ripping off the work of others.
In another section of the book, Harris, without proper attribution, reproduced extensive sections from a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release. She and her co-author passed off the language as their own, copying multiple paragraphs virtually verbatim. Here is the… pic.twitter.com/9FpsxQE8Sz— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 14, 2024
The irony of this is sweet, given that her current boss is himself a plagiarist. You may recall that the fabulist Joe Biden ripped off a speech (and some of the biography) of Neil Kinnock in his first race for president. Biden has spent his life as a sort of Walter Mitty, inventing and reinventing his life story, so it is no surprise that he needed to steal some material to embellish his life story.
Remember back when the media took plagiarism seriously?
Back in 1988, Biden was shown to have plagiarized multiple other politicians – a scandal so devastating that he was forced to drop out of the race.
You won’t hear any of today’s journalists talking this way about Kamala.
