Kamala Harris is plagued with problems linked to two main personality traits – stupidity and dishonesty. Both these traits, combined with her desperation to boost her public image, seemingly played a role in her plagiarism scandal.
Lacking intelligence, Harris naturally tends to avoid independent media and even on friendly leftist platforms, she has a tough time articulating relevant and meaningful answers to many of the questions on policy. Conservative news sources – including Washington Free Beacon, The Western Journal, and the New York Post – all reported this month on the multiple occasions Harris engaged in plagiarism, stealing the thoughts and words of others and presenting them as her own.
Around mid-October, conservative activist Christopher Rufo exposed the plagiarized passages in the 2009 book Smart on Crime authored by Kamala Harris. Portions of plagiarized texts were shown to be directly ripped off Wikipedia – a source colleges routinely tell students not to cite let alone copy and paste into their essays. Not quite able to defend it, the leftist mainstream media quickly gave Harris a free pass on the plagiarism report by downplaying it as “not serious lapses.”
On Tuesday (October 22), the Washington Free Beacon dug further into Harris’s history of plagiarism. Their report revealed that Harris generously engaged in plagiarism in April 2007 when she testified before Congress as a district attorney in support of a bill related to a student loan repayment program. Upon research, the written statement of Harris’s testimony turned out to be a nearly exact copy of another district attorney, a Republican, from IL.
The story wrote:
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.
Interestingly, the leftist media did not reach out to a plagiarism expert this time. Instead, they went to the Republican, Paul Logli, who had been on the same board as Harris back then and accordingly would play friendly toward Harris. Logli told the media that it was not plagiarism but just similarities between the two statements because the same staff wrote them for both him and Harris.
Logli’s defense is not credible and has no objective value because plagiarism is assessed objectively by comparison of text and ideas, not personal statements. But if his statement is taken for a fact, it leaves Harris as dumb enough not to be able to make her own testimony. And that is likely what happened with her book as well. She likely hired some lousy ghostwriter who lifted text straight out of Wikipedia and other sources to make some quick cash.
But there is more to Harris’s plagiarism scandal than these two cases. As reported in The Western Journal, Harris in 2012 took a story about a child sex trafficking incident in D.C. – originally published by the nonprofit Polaris Project – and presented it as an incident taking place in San Francisco.
Other instances of plagiarism to the (dis)credit of Harris were mentioned as well:
A 2010 report copied parts of a report from a predecessor, it said. A 2012 report grabbed text from Wikipedia. A 2014 report lifted part of a New York state judge’s ruling along with his footnotes.
What makes this Harris scandal interesting is the fact that Biden has also been exposed as a plagiarist. In fact, parts of Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign speech and other instances of plagiarism were so serious that Biden had to drop his presidential bid when he was caught doing it.
Captain Morgan, a conservative voice on X (Twitter), made a note of this fact and posted select portions of text plagiarized by Harris along with old video footage of Biden’s plagiarism. He asked: “Why was Biden forced to drop out of the Presidential race in 1988 for PLAGIARISM? But Kamala is NOT for even MORE PLAGIARISM?”