Vice President Kamala Harris is once again facing controversy as she’s now being accused of plagiarizing huge sections of her 2007 testimony delivered before Congress. Her statements were allegedly copied from a statement made by a Republican district attorney, according to a report from Newsweek. The Washington Free Beacon originally broke the story. And this isn’t the first accusation of plagiarism to hit Harris in just the last few weeks. She’s also accused of copy-and-pasting from various sources without citation in a book published in 2009. Apparently, Harris does not have an original thought in her head.
The report says that the publication, Newsweek, conducted their own independent investigation into the allegations and confirmed the findings made by the Free Beacon. Almost the entirety of the 1,500 word testimony Harris delivered was ripped straight from a statement made by Paul Logi, who served as the district attorney of Winnebago County, Illinois. Only minor additions and changes were made to the text before the now-vice president delivered the testimony.
Lie, cheat, steal. Repeat.
That’s the winning strategy of the Democratic Party. They keep proving it true with every passing day.
In April 2007, Harris, then-district attorney of San Francisco, testified before the House Judiciary Committee in support of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act, a bill aimed to offer student loan repayment to state and local prosecutors to help retain legal talent. In a written statement, she said that many prosecutors, burdened by law school debt, leave for better-paying jobs in the private sector after a few years. This has left district attorneys’ offices short-staffed, forcing inexperienced attorneys to take on complex cases.
While Harris’ statement was concise and pragmatic, 80 percent of it closely matched Logli’s testimony, which he delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee two months earlier on the same issue. The two statements shared similar language, structure, and even the same typographical errors.
Newsweek stated that their investigation confirmed the reporting of the Free Beacon after they compared both documents and discovered 1,200 of the 1,5000 words that were in Harris’ testimony were copied from Logli’s testimony. This included entire paragraphs that advocated for student loan relief in order to keep experienced prosecutors involved in public service.
“There are numerous criminal cases that are particularly difficult because of the dynamics involved,” Harris said—a statement nearly identical to Logli’s testimony. Both statements argued that student loan forgiveness was crucial for keeping experienced prosecutors in public service, citing the same data and making the same points in the same order.
Logli, a Republican, submitted his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2007, while Harris delivered hers to the House Judiciary Committee in April of that year. Despite being presented to different chambers of Congress, the testimonies were strikingly similar. Harris’ statement contained only a few additional paragraphs, which did little to disguise the broader similarities.
Logi, who retired from his career in 2021, has not issued any public comments on the allegations against Harris.
The Free Beacon also shined a spotlight on a report concerning human trafficking while Harris was serving as the attorney general of California. Apparently, she included a case study in her reported that was totally made up. The case in question described a young woman who was forced to be a prostitute, but was later rescued by police, which was sourced from the Polaris Project, an organization — nonprofit — that runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
“However, Harris presented the story as if it had occurred in California, while the original account was a fictionalized example from Washington, D.C., created for illustrative purposes. Additionally, the report found that Harris had copied a paragraph directly from Wikipedia without proper attribution,” Newsweek reported.
This woman can’t tell the truth or do an honest day’s work to save her soul. This clearly isn’t the kind of person you want serving in the White House, having control over classified data, and of course the nuclear football.
Hard pass, guys. Hard pass.
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