Several passages in Vice President Kamala Harris' first book are found to have been lifted from Wikipedia and other sources without attribution, according to a bombshell new report.
Harris published her first book 'Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer' in 2009, with co-author Joan O’C Hamilton.
It took a political slogan from her campaign for district attorney and attempted to make it into a nationwide plan for the future of criminal justice reform.
Author and activist Christopher Russo published details of the book on his Substack on Monday, citing famous Austrian 'plagiarism hunter' Stefan Weber, who says he found more than a dozen fragments of plagiarism.
Weber's report shows that Harris copied verbatim content from Wikipedia, Goodwill Industries, her partner on her 'Back on Track' crime program, and other online sources.
The report shows that Harris lifted an entire section of text from an Associated Press story published in April 2008 about low graduation rates.
In another section of the book, Harris included extensive sections from a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release nearly verbatim without attribution.
The plagiarism hunter made a side-by-side comparison, showing Harris lifted part of her book from Wikipedia without properly citing the online encyclopedia as her source.
Lmao Kamala didn't even write her own book! https://t.co/gEvyRdUrvG
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 14, 2024