KAMALA IN CRISIS: Shocking new allegation as campaign is mired in lying scandals
New accusations have surfaced against Vice President Kamala Harris for testimony she delivered as a U.S. senator.
New plagiarism accusations have surfaced against Vice President Kamala Harris for testimony she delivered as a U.S. senator.
Harris allegedly lifted text 'verbatim' from a former colleague for use in written congressional testimony she gave in 2007, according to an analysis by the Washington Free Beacon.
The latest allegations about Harris come on the heels of another scandal her campaign in embroiled in: whether she actually 'did the fries' while working at McDonald's in college.
Harris has said she worked at during her college years, though her camp hasn't published any photos of her job there.
And McDonald's revealed this week that it does not have records to verify her claim that she worked at one of its restaurants in the 1980s.
She was also recently accused of copying 'word-for-word' several blocks of text in her book 'Smart on Crime' published in 2009.
The new plagiarism allegations arise from testimony Harris gave as a senator in support of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007.
It was a bill that would help pay student loans for state and federal prosecutors to keep talented lawyers in the profession.
Harris' interest in the proposal was personal, as she spent her early years as a career prosecutor before she ran for political office.
But her written statement in support of the proposal sent to the House Judiciary Committee was not tailored to her own experience.
It rather reflected nearly verbatim text sent by District Attorney Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, a Republican, in support of the bill.
Of the 1,500 words in the testimony, eighty percent were exactly the same as Logli's submission, according to the Free Beacon analysis.
It is unclear whether both political figures were using the same source text to write their testimony, although it is highly likely the product of a sloppy or lazy staff work.
Plagiarism accusations can derail a political campaign, if the candidate is found guilty of intentionally copying other politician for dramatic effect without doing the work. …
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