Vice President Kamala Harris did not plagiarize multiple passages in her 2009 book, Smart on Crime, campaign spokesman James Singer claimed in a Tuesday statement.
The claim contradicts Harris’s allies in the media, including the New York Times and the New Republic, which reported that she plagiarized multiple passages in her book. Some of the lengthy messages lifted were from Wikipedia and the Associated Press.
Conservative journalist Christopher Rufo exposed the plagiarism based on research by Dr. Stefan Weber, a respected Austrian expert on plagiarism.
“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,” Singer added.
The campaign’s statement comes one day before it will allow Harris to sit for an interview Wednesday with Fox News’s Bret Baier, who presumably would ask Harris about her most recent scandal. The topic did not come up when Harris appeared for a Tuesday interview with Charlamagne tha God.
The scandal appears to rise to the level of an October surprise, CNN reported:
Can’t read, but sure as hell can deny!