Kamala Harris reportedly caught in yet another plagiarism scandal



Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was caught plagiarizing again, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon.

Harris was accused of plagiarizing sections of a book she published in 2009 with a co-author, and the campaign denied those claims. Now, a new report showed evidence that she may have plagiarized large sections of her testimony before Congress in 2007.

'The report said that a shocking 80% of the testimony Harris submitted for the John R. Justice Act was lifted.'

Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco at the time.

Virtually her entire testimony about the bill was taken from that of another district attorney, Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who had testified in support of the legislation two months earlier before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both statements cite the same surveys, use the same language, and make the same points in the same order, with a paragraph added here or there. They even contain the same typos, such as missing punctuation or mistaken plurals. One error—a "who" that should have been a "whom"—was corrected in Harris’s transposition.

Logli made his testimony before the Senate while Harris submitted hers to the House, and Logli is a Republican.

The report said that a shocking 80% of the testimony Harris submitted for the John R. Justice Act was lifted from that of Logli made two months earlier.

In addition, the Washington Free Beacon documented how Harris allegedly misrepresented a fictionalized story about a sex-trafficking victim and made it appear as though it were a true story while switching the location of the tale to San Francisco.

The Washington Free Beacon caught several other examples of apparent plagiarism that had been previously unreported.

The Harris-Walz campaign did not respond to a request for a comment from the Beacon but had dismissed the earlier accusations of plagiarism.

"Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies," said James Singer, a spokesman for the campaign.

"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," he added.

Harris was also accused of stealing a story about her childhood from the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

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JD Vance mocks Kamala Harris after she allegedly plagiarized sections of her 2009 book



Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance ridiculed Vice President Kamala Harris (D) over a report that unearthed evidence of plagiarism in her 2009 book.

Harris expanded her political prominence with the release of the book she co-authored with Joan Hamilton, entitled "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer," but investigator Christopher Rufo says sections of the book were lifted from sources without proper attribution.

'Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism.'

Rufo cited media researcher Stefan Weber, known for finding evidence of plagiarism in other cases, in his exposé.

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.

Rufo said the Harris campaign did not respond with a request for a comment about the allegations.

Taken in total, there is certainly a breach of standards here. Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism. 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.

Vance responded on his social media account with a link to the damaging revelations.

"Hi, I'm JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia," he posted.

Harris has been accused previously of ripping off a childhood story from civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and claiming it to be her own. In the story, she claims she fell out of a stroller at a civil rights protest and told her mother that she wanted "fweedom." Critics point out it is remarkably similar to a story MLK Jr. told about a child he saw at a protest.

Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has also been accused of numerous exaggerations and outright lies related to his life story and political background.

Vance went on to mock what he expected to be the response from the mainstream media.

"Cue the corporate media 'fact checkers,'" he posted. "Vance's tweet is missing important context. Kamala Harris only copied some of her book from Wikipedia."

The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Social media torches Kamala Harris for telling odd story from her childhood that is strikingly similar to one from MLK Jr.



Vice President-elect Kamala Harris recalled a bizarre story from her childhood that many thought was strikingly similar to one told by the iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965.

In the profile from Elle magazine, Harris says that as a child she tumbled out of her stroller while her parents were enraptured at a political demonstration.

Senator Kamala Harris started her life's work young. She laughs from her gut, the way you would with family, as she remembers being wheeled through an Oakland, California, civil rights march in a stroller with no straps with her parents and her uncle. At some point, she fell from the stroller (few safety regulations existed for children's equipment back then), and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and doubled back, she was understandably upset. "My mother tells the story about how I'm fussing," Harris says, "and she's like, 'Baby, what do you want? What do you need?' And I just looked at her and I said, 'Fweedom.'"

Many on social media immediately cast doubt on the story and called it improbable, but others noted how similar it was to a story told by MLK to Playboy magazine in 1965.

I never will forget a moment in Birmingham when a white policeman accosted a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother. "What do you want?" the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered, "Fee-dom." She couldn't even pronounce it, but she knew. It was beautiful! Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me.

Some compared the incident to accusations of plagiarism that tanked an earlier presidential campaign in 1987 by President-elect Joe Biden, while others mocked Harris.

"Plagiarizing an MLK interview seems like the kind of thing you'll get caught on. Why do ppl do this to themselves," responded Seth Mandel, executive editor of the Washington Examiner.

"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are two plagiarizing frauds. Biden plagiarized during law school and from RFK, Hubert Humphrey, JFK, and he stole the family history of a British politician. Now Kamala Harris plagiarized from MLK," replied GOP Rapid Response Steve Guest.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are two plagiarizing frauds. Biden plagiarized during law school and from RFK, Hubert… https://t.co/4sVMghXdDR
— Steve Guest (@Steve Guest)1609803373.0

[H/T: Fox News]