Conservative activist and writer Christopher Rufo is bringing the “receipts” against Vice President Kamala Harris and claims she has a “plagiarism problem.”
Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute shared the results of an investigation by “a famed Austrian ‘plagiarism hunter” on X and in a newsletter that explained how the vice president “appears to have airlifted sections” of her criminal-justice book, “Smart on Crime.”
“We have the receipts,” Rufo wrote.
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
“Harris’s book contains more than a dozen ‘vicious plagiarism fragments,'” according to Stefan Weber, Rufo wrote. “Some of the passages he highlighted appear to contain minor transgressions—reproducing small sections of text; insufficient paraphrasing—but others seem to reflect more serious infractions, similar in severity to those found in Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis. (Harris did not respond to a request for comment.)”
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
Several examples of this are highlighted in the post and online.
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
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
“Taken in total, there is certainly a breach of standards here,” Rufo wrote.
“Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism,” he continued. “They not only lifted material from sources without proper attribution but in at least one case, relied on a low-quality source, which potentially undermined the accuracy of their conclusion.”
Rufo urged Harris to ” retract the plagiarized passages and issue a correction.”
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