Kamala Hit With More Plagiarism Claims, Allegedly Copied Fictional Story for Human Trafficking Report

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Any hope that Kamala Harris had left plagiarism allegations behind her quickly evaporated Tuesday morning with fresh accusations that the Democrat nominee lifted Congressional testimony from an Illinois district attorney.

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She has also been accused of copying a fictionalized account from a sex trafficking "victim" and presenting it as fact in a report she published regarding such crimes in the state of California. 

All told, a report from the Washington Free Beacon found seven examples of alleged plagiarism with the aforementioned marking the most compelling evidence.

Harris, then the district attorney in San Francisco, testified before the House in support of legislation designed to add a program for student loan repayment for prosecutors and public defenders.

A Free Beacon analysis uncovered that her testimony was copied nearly "verbatim" from that presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee by Paul Logli, the DA of Winnebago County.

"Both statements cite the same surveys, use the same language, and make the same points in the same order, with a paragraph added here or there," reporter Aaron Sibarium writes. "They even contain the same typos, such as missing punctuation or mistaken plurals."

One graphic posted shows an exact match between five paragraphs of Harris' testimony with that of Logli, with the exception of an inserted paragraph by the presidential candidate and one other slight alteration - she changed the word "who" to "whom."

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In perhaps an even more startling allegation, Harris is believed to have plagiarized a fictional account of sex trafficking for a very real report on the matter.

An outfit known as the Polaris Project posted a series of stories of human trafficking in June of 2012 which they describe as "representative of the types of calls" the hotline receives and "meant for informational purposes only."

Around that time, acting as the Attorney General of the state of California, Harris appeared to have included one of those stores in her report on "the state of human trafficking" in the Golden State.

Harris did cite her source in this instance, but as the Washington Free Beacon reveals, "she copied it verbatim and did not acknowledge that it contained fictionalized material."

That is akin to a CIA official using reports from an agent named Evelyn Salt as evidence in a report on Russian sleeper cells.

Additionally, Kamala Harris appears to have plagiarized another paragraph from Wikipedia for the same report. All of this, especially the latter reference, is sure to revive the scandal that plagued the Vice President just last week.

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Harris was the subject of accusations by conservative activist Christopher Rufo who found evidence that she plagiarized portions of her 2009 book "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer."

Harris co-authored the work.

Rufo took to X and dropped significant evidence—otherwise known as "receipts"—that Harris "plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime," including lifting sections directly from Wikipedia.

The media, most notably the New York Times, ran cover for their preferred presidential candidate, dismissing the allegations as a small sample and citing an exert who insisted “the lapses were not that serious."

It will be compelling to see how the Times addresses the controversy now that the body of evidence has expanded exponentially with the new report.

A lot of these sections of allegedly plagiarized material make her first foray into the matter seem relatively tame. You may recall that Harris was accused of copying a tale she told Elle Magazine about wanting “fweedom” as a child.

The Vice President told Elle the story of her attending a civil rights protest as a wee child.

“My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing, and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom,'" Harris explained.

Critics noticed that the story seemed awfully familiar to one told by one of the most quoted men in American history – Martin Luther King Jr.

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"I will never forget a moment in Birmingham when a White policeman accosted a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother," King said in a 1965 interview in Playboy

"What do you want?' the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked at him straight in the eye and answered, 'Fee-dom.'"

While that story wasn't nearly the word-for-word examples we're seeing today, the theme was similar. 

The general lack of interest in a presidential candidate plagiarizing material stands in stark contrast to what happened to President Biden when he first ran for the nation's highest office.

Indeed, Biden was considered a strong candidate for president in 1988 when he first announced his run, but was derailed by accusations of plagiarism.

Now, with Kamala following in those footsteps, the media is strangely uncurious or even running defense on her behalf.

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