Vice President Kamala Harris has been accused of plagiarizing certain passages of her 2009 book, “Smart on Crime,” co-written with author Joan O’C. Hamilton.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, published the passages in an Oct. 14 article citing the work of Austrian plagiarism hunter Stefan Weber. The article alleges that the 200-page Harris book includes five paragraphs with sentences and sentence fragments copied from other works without proper attribution.
“Smart on Crime” discusses the then-San Francisco district attorney’s crime policies, drawing on her career experience as a prosecutor.
The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times. In a statement given to CNN, a campaign spokesperson dismissed the allegations….