Looks Like Kamala Plagiarized

Kamala Harris is accused of plagiarizing over a dozen different sections of her book on criminal justice. It’s hard to believe she wrote a book, but she did have a co-author, and it looks like she plagiarized parts of it.

“Plagiarism hunter” Dr. Stefan Weber made the discovery, and Christopher Rufo verified it. Rufo posted the information this morning.

As in the past, the NY Post reported it, and eventually, the NY Times will.

Several passages in Kamala’s 2009 book “Smart on Crime” closely resemble or perfectly match wording from other sources. As for her being smart on crime, only recently did we discover that she didn’t want to prosecute drug dealers until the third offense. If that is smart, I’ll eat my mother’s liver and onions dinners.

The material predates Harris’s book. It looks like she copied the AP, Wikipedia, a Bureau of Justice report from 2000, an Urban Institute report from 2004, and a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release.

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

Finally, when attempting to write a description of a nonprofit group, Harris simply lifted promotional language from an Urban Institute report, and failed to cite her source: pic.twitter.com/WpcC0SkpT5

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) October 14, 2024