A new plagiarism allegation has been raised against Vice President Kamala Harris as the efforts of The New York Times to support Harris have widened that controversy.
On Monday, conservative activist Christopher Rufo posted five allegations of plagiarism from her 2009 book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer,” which was co-authored with Joan O’C Hamilton.
The New York Times then filed a report that rose to Harris’s defense, writing 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.”
Since then, Rufo has fired back with more excerpts. “We can keep this going for a while,” he posted on X, adding, “She copied the language verbatim.”