Posted on 10/22/2024 5:47:10 PM PDT by george76
Kamala Harris has been accused of plagiarism for the second time in as many weeks, this time including Congressional testimony she gave as a district attorney and at least one instance of lifting material from Wikipedia.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Harris lifted much of her 2007 testimony before Congress from a Republican district attorney in Illinois named Paul Logli. She also allegedly copied a paragraph from Wikipedia in a 2012 report on human trafficking.
In a third instance, the outlet reported that Harris passed off a fictionalized story about a sex trafficking victim as fact, only changing the location to San Francisco, where Harris was the district attorney at the time, effectively giving her office credit for helping the pretend person.
Overall, the outlet highlighted seven instances of plagiarism, comparing them to similar scandals in the past, including the one that sunk President Joe Biden’s 1987 White House bid and an instance where former first lady Melania Trump was accused of stealing material from former first lady Michelle Obama.
The Washington Examiner has contacted the Harris and Trump campaigns seeking comment.
Last week, Harris was accused of plagiarizing her 2009 book, Smart on Crime, including portions that also resembled Wikipedia entries.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump’s running mate, quickly highlighted the allegations that Harris plagiarized part of her book.
“Hi, I’m JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia,” Vance posted on X.
The Ohio senator is well known for his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
Harris’s campaign dismissed the allegations as an attack against her support.
“This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the vice president clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout,” Harris campaign spokesman James Singer told the New York Times.
The book was written with the help of a ghostwriter, meaning Harris may not have been the guilty party even if the material was stolen. However, the new accusations may be harder to defend.
The first round of accusations was unearthed by Christopher F. Rufo, who is well-known for a plagiarism investigation into former Harvard President Claudine Gay that eventually led to her resignation.
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“Kamala Harris has been plagiarizing her entire career,” Rufo said in response to the latest findings.
The Free Beacon in August questioned Harris’s claim that she worked in a McDonald’s in the summer of 1983, reporting that she had never mentioned it until her 2019 run for president and that details of the claim had changed over time. Trump stopped at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s last weekend, partly to troll Harris over the controversy.
Kamala Harris Plagiarized Pages of Congressional Testimony From a Republican Colleague. Plus, a Fictionalized Story About Human Trafficking..
The new examples add to the allegations of plagiarism published last week by conservative activist Christopher Rufo, which focused exclusively on Harris’s 2009 book Smart on Crime.
In 1987, Joe Biden withdrew from the Democrat Party primary after he plagiarized a British politician in his closing statement at a debate.
Obama just took credit for Trump’s economy. LOL
You didn’t build that 😂
Obeyme is such a disgrace to America 🇺🇸.
But it was only a couple of paragraphs. \_(ツ)_/
https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1848886575603544453
Democrat candidate shot someone at Adam Kinzinger event. W T. F.
She is a good democrat and does criminal acts 24/7 like other rats in politics.
Of course she worked at McDonalds...
...in Montréal, serving McPoulet and McPoutine. (The apostrophe doesn’t exist in the McDonald’s name in Quebec - Quebec ‘French only’ law.) All because her mama was sooooo poor, teaching at the Montréal Jewish Hospital and doing research at McGill University.
She be jes’ a poh chile o’ da South. (The south side of the toney Mount Royal neighbourhood of Montréal, that is.)
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FJB
FKH
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Any more instances of plagiarism, and we’ll need a Venn diagram.
I watched a local station’s news and they had an “exclusive” interview with Mr. Logli. I went to their website- WIFR.com- nothing. Perhaps they’ll have it posted in the morning. He explains his connection with Harris.
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