A new investigation has revealed that Vice President Kamala Harris allegedly plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her 2009 book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. This revelation, which could become an “October surprise” ahead of the 2024 election, claims that Harris lifted passages from various sources, including a Wikipedia article, without giving proper credit.
Journalist Christopher Rufo broke the story, citing research from renowned “plagiarism hunter” Stefan Weber, who has previously exposed high-profile political figures for similar offenses. Weber found over a dozen instances in which Harris allegedly copied text, referring to them as “vicious plagiarism fragments.”
EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation. The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia.
We have the receipts. 🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 14, 2024
One of the most significant examples includes a section reportedly taken from a press release by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which Harris presented as her own work without any attribution. In another instance, she allegedly copied language from an NBC News report on high