Is anyone surprised to learn that a renowned plagiarism expert says Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized major sections of her 2009 book "Smart on Crime"?
Harris wrote the book with a co-author, Joan O’C Hamilton, as she began her campaign for California Attorney General.
It was intended to “outline her vision of how the criminal justice system should function.“
Dr. Stefan Weber contended in a report that Harris "copied virtually an entire Wikipedia article into her book without providing attribution to Wikipedia.”
He also said she "fabricated a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number."
Journalist and author Christopher Rufo cited many of the examples on X in great detail.
Weber says Harris used verbatim language from an AP/NBC News report, a John Jay College press release, and other primary sources.
He is known for taking down several German politicians for plagiarism, but the American media will likely try to ignore Harris's plagiarism just like it glossed over Biden's when it came time to elect him.
The Trump campaign has jumped right on the report. Vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance posted on X, "Hi, I'm JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia."
Hi, I'm JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia. https://t.co/tkZvK8LrI3
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 14, 2024
The real question isn't whether Harris plagiarized her book--that seems pretty clear from Weber's report.
The real question is how she was able to rise through the ranks and be running for president without anyone finding out about it.
Either the media failed to even try to vet her or they found out about the plagiarism and hid it.
Neither one of those says anything good about them and their fairness or objectivity--but then we already knew that.
