Kamala Harris plagiarized her first book, bombshell report claims as scandal rocks presidential campaign | 14 Oct 2024 | Several passages in Kamala Harris' first book are found to have been lifted from primary sources without attribution, according to a new report from plagiarism hunters. Harris published her first book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer in 2009, with co-author Joan O'C. Hamilton, taking her political slogan from her campaign for district attorney and putting it into a nationwide plan for the future of criminal justice reform. Author and activist Christopher Russo published details of the book on his Substack on Monday, citing famous Austrian "plagiarism hunter" Stefan Weber, who says he found more than a dozen fragments of plagiarism. Weber's report shows that Harris copied verbatim content from Wikipedia, Goodwill Industries, her partner on her "Back on Track" crime program, into the text of her book. [An October "surprise" that isn't. We knew she couldn't have written a book as she's likely never even read one.]