Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) trolled Vice President Kamala Harris after reports that she plagiarized her 2009 book came out on Monday.
“Lmao Kamala didn’t even write her own book!” Vance quipped on social media platform, X.
In a subsequent post, he wrote, “Hi, I’m JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia.”
His post included a link to an article by conservative journalist Christopher Rufo, which details instances where Harris purportedly copied sections of her book, “Smart on Crime,” co-authored with Joan O’C Hamilton, from sources such as Wikipedia without acknowledgment.
Austrian “Plagiarism Hunter” Stefan Weber published blog entries highlighting examples from Harris’s book that seemingly mirrored other texts, including a comprehensive section alleged to be sourced from a 2008 Wikipedia entry.
Weber, known for unearthing plagiarism among German-speaking political figures, identified 27 instances of plagiarism, noting that “24 fragments are plagiarism from other authors, [and] 3 fragments are self-plagiarism from a work written with a co-author.”
Rufo reviewed Weber’s findings, identifying “at least a dozen sections” of copied material and shared excerpts on his X account.
Rufo noted that the instances he verified were “comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis.”
Gay resigned from her role at Harvard after numerous plagiarism cases within her academic work were exposed.
One cited example involved a narrative from Harris’ book that closely resembled a 2008 Wikipedia article about New York City’s Midtown Community Court.
Rufo presented a passage from the book that was almost directly lifted from the Wikipedia entry.
At the time of the alleged copying, Wikipedia was not considered a reliable reference source due to its open-source nature.
Rufo highlighted how the book misrepresented a report by replicating Wikipedia’s wording, leading to unsupported claims.
“Taken in total, there is certainly a breach of standards here. Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism,” Rufo commented.
The book also contains a story that echoes Rev Dr. Martin Luther King’s recounting of a childhood experience during the civil rights era.
Harris wrote about an incident when her mother asked her what she wanted amidst fussing, to which Harris, as a toddler, replied, “Fweedom.”
This anecdote parallels King’s story about a young girl in Birmingham. According to King, a white policeman asked the girl, “What do you want?” during a demonstration, to which she replied, “Fee-dom.”
Vance got one final shot in at Harris on Monday, when he tweeted: “Cue the corporate media “fact checkers”: ‘Vance’s tweet is missing important context. Kamala Harris only copied some of her book from Wikipedia.'”
Copy, cheat, lie. That’s the democrat party way.
Every job Whorris ever held was obtained with the direct help and influence from Willy Brown who was her 30 year senior “sugar daddy”. Brown was a huge political influencer and power player who paid Whorris with jobs etc for “sexual services”. In reality Whorris was a prostitute. The demonRAT party could not have found a more disgusting and unrepeatable if they tried.