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Conservative activist and writer Christopher Rufo is bringing the “receipts” against Vice President Kamala Harris and claims she has a “plagiarism problem.”

Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute shared the results of an investigation by “a famed Austrian ‘plagiarism hunter” on X and in a newsletter that explained how the vice president “appears to have airlifted sections” of her criminal-justice book, “Smart on Crime.”

“We have the receipts,” Rufo wrote.

“Harris’s book contains more than a dozen ‘vicious plagiarism fragments,’” according to Stefan Weber, Rufo wrote. “Some of the passages he highlighted appear to contain minor transgressions—reproducing small sections of text; insufficient paraphrasing—but others seem to reflect more serious infractions, similar in severity to those found in Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis. (Harris did not respond to a request for comment.)”

Several examples of this are highlighted in the post and online.

“Taken in total, there is certainly a breach of standards here,” Rufo wrote.

“Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism,” he continued. “They not only lifted material from sources without proper attribution but in at least one case, relied on a low-quality source, which potentially undermined the accuracy of their conclusion.”

Rufo urged Harris to ” retract the plagiarized passages and issue a correction.”

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