New York Times Confirms Kamala Harris Plagiarized Her Book
Then Insists Her Actions Were ‘Not Serious’
The New York Times has confirmed a report on Monday that Kamala Harris had plagiarized part of a book she wrote before entering politics.
According to the conservative journalist and researcher Christopher Rufo, Harris plagiarized parts of her 2009 Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer, which she co-authored witih writer Joan O’C Hamilton.
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
After his report went viral across the X platform, The New York Times looked into the matter and confirmed that she had indeed committed plagiarism.
However, they also made sure to cover her against any political damage by insisting that her crimes were not serious.
Their report states:
The passages called into question by Mr. Rufo on his Substack platform involve about 500 words in the approximately 65,000-word, 200-page book. Ms. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, wrote the book with another author when she was the district attorney in San Francisco.
In a review of the book, The New York Times found that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer, which is considered the most serious form of plagiarism. Instead, the sentences copy descriptions of programs or statistical information that appear elsewhere.