Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized parts of her 2009 book “Smart on Crime,” according to a conservative activist.
“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 Rufo posted on X.
Rufo posted five examples as well.
According to Rufo, the alleged plagiarism is “comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis.”
That led Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio to fire off a post on X.
“Hi, I’m JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia,” he wrote.
In a section about a New York court program, Harris stole long passages directly from Wikipedia—long considered an unreliable source. She not only assumes the online encyclopedia’s accuracy, but copies its language nearly verbatim, without citing the source. Here is Harris’s… pic.twitter.com/qrwHE8AAgk
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 14, 2024
Harris wrote the book “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer,” while preparing to run for attorney general of California, Rufo