Earlier this week journalist Chris Rufo revealed that Kamala Harris plagiarized giant sections of her book on crime, after famed Austrian "plagiarism hunter" Dr. Stefan Weber found that "Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book."
As part of their propaganda, the Times wheeled out plagiarism expert Jonathan Bailey, who said "his initial reaction to Mr. Rufo’s claims was that the errors were not serious, given the size of the document."
In response, the New York Times bent over backwards (and forwards) to downplay their preferred candidate's cut-n-pastery - first casting it as 'conservative activist seizes on passages' from Harris' book, then totally lying about Rufo's reporting - which Rufo quickly debunked.
While there are problems with this work, the pattern points to sloppy writing habits, not a malicious intent to defraud.
Today, I reviewed the complete dossier prepared by Dr. Stefan Weber, whom I have covered before.
Much like it's not "malicious intent to defraud" when a college student copies Wikipedia word-for-word, then gets expelled?
With this new information, while I believe the case is more serious than I commented to the New York Times, the overarching points remain.
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