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Looks like Kamala Harris had a habit of plagiarism.
Last week came word of multiple instances in her 2009 book “Smart on Crime”; this week, more of it was exposed in her 2007 prepared testimony as San Francisco district attorney to the House Judiciary Committee and in an official 2012 report as California attorney general.
Since The New York Times got burned for trying to whitewash the 2009 theft; we expect her media backers will now simply try to bury the latest outrages.
The 2007 instance is too blatant to deny, after all: She literally lifted whole paragraphs and pages from the testimony of a Republican district attorney Paul Logli’s statement to the Senate on the same subject.
In fact, roughly 1,200 words in her 1,500-word statement was copied, with a few trivial changes like “who” to “whom.”
But the worst came from Attorney General Harris, when she not only copied, but also passed off a fictionalized story as fact.
Yes, she credited the Polaris Project as her source, but she changed an item that Polaris clearly labeled as an example meant “for informational purposes only,” and set in Washington, DC, into a “real” story in her own San Francisco.
One more: AG Harris in a 2014 report on transnational gangs copied sentences and footnotes from New York judge Roger McDonough, again without crediting her source.
Harris routinely touts her experience as a prosecutor to prove she’s tough on issues like border security and crime, but it turns out that, even while she was prosecuting, she was also stealing — and from other attorneys.
Her experience, that is, mainly prepared her to steal Donald Trump’s “no tax on tips” idea.