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The Media Shouldn’t Overlook Kamala Harris’ Plagiarism

In 2009, Kamala Harris co-authored a book called Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. Its purpose was to outline her criminal justice policies in advance of her campaign for California attorney general.

The book has attracted the attention of conservative writer and activist Christopher Rufo, who contends that Harris and co-author Joan O’C. Hamilton plagiarized several passages. Rufo’s analysis—which relies on the work of Stefan Weber, a noted exposer of plagiarism—finds that there are at least 12 sections of the book in which sentences or entire paragraphs were copied from another source without proper attribution.

“Taken in total, there is certainly a breach of standards here,” writes Rufo. “Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism. 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.”

Readers may disagree about the severity of some aspects of the plagiarism: Harris borrowing from her own work or not paraphrasing sufficiently. But there are more striking examples of entire passages being lifted from other sources without citation. This is definitely a no-no, and meets the standard definition of plagiarism.

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FBI Fudges Violent Crime Stats To Hide 55 Percent Rise Under Biden-Harris Administration

When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1 percent. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.

But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5 percent. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

The Bureau — which has been at the center of partisan storms — made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release. 

RCI discovered the change through a cryptic reference on the FBI website that states: “The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023.” But there is no mention that the numbers increased. One only sees the change by downloading the FBI’s new crime data and comparing it to the file released last year.

After the FBI released its new crime data in September, a USA Today headline read: “Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” 

It’s been over three weeks since the FBI released the revised data. The Bureau’s lack of acknowledgment or explanation about the significant change concerns researchers.

“I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William and Mary who specializes in studying crime, told RealClearInvestigations. “There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.”

“It is up to the FBI to explain what they have done, and they haven’t explained these large changes,” Dr. Thomas Marvell, the president of Justec Research, a criminal justice statistical research organization, told RCI.

The FBI did not respond to RCI’s repeated requests for comment.

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Kamala Harris Can’t Answer The Question “Why Is It Important To Vote For You?”

During an interview with BET, Kamala Harris struggled to provide an answer when asked why people should vote for her.

“Let us know why it’s so important to vote for you?” the host asked.

Instead of giving a coherent answer to perhaps the most basic question possible, Harris delivered another word salad garble.

“There’s a lot of misinformation out there that would suggest to people that their vote doesn’t matter,” Harris said.

Ok, but why should anyone vote for you?

“When you vote, you actually have the ability to determine the future,” she then stated.

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CBS Faces ‘News Distortion’ Complaint Amid ’60 Minutes’ Harris Interview Edit Scandal

The “disinformation” police are the real criminals this election, guilty of massaging, distorting, and mangling facts to fit their true agenda — stopping Donald Trump and electing Kamala Harris. 

As Election Day looms, more and more Americans understand that the media outlets once trusted as objective news sources have fractured that faith with routine acts of journalistic malpractice. 

Case in point, the slick editing work CBS News did in a “60 Minutes” interview earlier this month with the vice president, the Democratic Party’s replacement presidential nominee.  

The Oct. 6 episode of the network’s “Face the Nation” used a clip to promote that evening’s “60 Minutes” interview with Harris in which the vice president offered her standard word salad answer to correspondent Bill Whitaker’s question about U.S. policy on Israel and the war in Gaza.  

“We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid and yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course,” Whitaker said. “The Biden-Harris administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire; he’s resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon; he went in anyway. He has promised to make Iran pay for the missile attack, and that has the potential of expanding the war. Does the U.S. have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?”

“Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region,” the Democrats’ presidential candidate responded in classic Kamala nonsense.

But that butchered bit of syntax didn’t show up in the “60 Minutes” interview that night. Instead, the segment featured a much clearer, coherent answer to the same question — what appeared to be a refined edit of a longer, meandering  response.

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Bret Baier Reveals Chaos Behind Kamala’s Trainwreck Interview: ‘Four Handlers’ Desperately Signal to Cut It Short — ‘I Had to Dismount There at the End’

In what can only be described as a complete disaster, Kamala Harris faced one of her toughest interviews yet during a recent appearance on Fox News with Bret Baier.

What was supposed to be a controlled media moment quickly spiraled into chaos, leaving even Kamala’s most loyal aides scrambling to cut the interview short.

Kamala, tasked by Biden as “Border Czar” in 2021, seemed visibly unprepared when Baier raised the record-breaking influx of illegal immigration.

Rather than addressing the crisis head-on, Harris tried to blame former President Trump, asserting he had obstructed her proposed immigration solutions.

Baier quickly countered, noting that six Democrats also opposed the immigration bill, leaving Harris scrambling for words.

Baier’s line of questioning didn’t waver, pressing her on the staggering 1.8 million immigrants potentially allowed into the U.S. annually under her proposal.

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Kamala Harris Dodges Tough Questions on Biden’s Mental Decline: ‘Joe Biden is Not on the Ballot… and Donald Trump is’

Kamala Harris faced a barrage of tough questions during a rare, combative interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier on Wednesday, where she was pressed on President Joe Biden’s mental fitness and her role in covering up his declining health.

During the interview, Kamala Harris threw shade at former President Trump, labeling him “unstable” with an air of confidence.

But when Bret Baier flipped the script, asking her to explain her previous claims about President Biden’s mental sharpness, Harris appeared caught off guard.

“You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that he ran circles around his staff. When did you first notice that President Biden’s mental faculties appeared diminished?” Baier asked.

Harris froze, visibly scanning her mind for the right words. After a pause that felt eternal, she stumbled into a non-answer, praising Biden’s “judgment and experience” instead of directly responding.

“Joe Biden, I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room, and he has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people,” Harris said.

Baier pressed further, asking if any concerns about Biden’s mental fitness had ever been raised, but Harris once again deflected.

“Bret, Joe Biden is not on the ballot… and Donald Trump is,” she said.

Baier, not satisfied, pressed further, referencing a New York Times op-ed by actor George Clooney, which noted a perceivable change in Biden’s demeanor.

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Biden-Harris DOJ Announces It Will ‘Monitor’ Voting in Ohio County Due to Sheriff’s Immigration Comments

An Ohio sheriff’s comments have triggered the Justice Department to proclaim that it will monitor one Ohio county for potential voter intimidation.

The fuss began on Sept. 13 when Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski issued a post about Vice President Kamala Harris on his personal Facebook page, according to USA Today.

“When people ask me…What’s gonna happen if the Flip – Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say…write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards,” Zuchowski wrote in the Facebook post, which no longer appears on his personal Facebook page. “Sooo…when the Illegal human ‘Locust’ (which she supports!) Need places to live…We’ll already have the addresses of their New families…who supported their arrival!”

The NAACP immediately began squawking about voter intimidation.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced its response, saying it will “monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in Portage County, Ohio, during the early voting period and on Election Day,” according to a news release from the Department of Justice.

“Voters in Portage County have raised concerns about intimidation resulting from the surveillance and the collection of personal information regarding voters, as well as threats concerning the electoral process. Attempted or actual intimidation, threats or coercion directed toward any person for voting and related activities or urging or aiding others in voting is prohibited by Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” the news release said.

As noted by the Associated Press, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio claimed the comments were an unconstitutional, “impermissible threat” against people displaying yard signs.

Freda J. Levenson, legal director of the ACLU of Ohio, alleged many residents believed the post was a “threat of governmental action to punish them for their expressed political beliefs” and took their signs down in fear.

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine called Zuchowski’s comments “unfortunate” and “not helpful.”

The Ohio secretary of state’s office shrugged off the fuss.

“Our office has determined the sheriff’s comments don’t violate election laws,” said Dan Lusheck, a representative of  Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose.

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Huh? Kamala Won’t Support Voter ID Because Rural Americans Don’t Have Access To Photocopy Machines

Speaking with Black Entertainment Television (BET) on Tuesday evening, Democrat presidential selectee Kamala Harris explained she doesn’t agree with voter ID laws because some Americans would allegedly have to “photocopy” their driver’s license while being unable to access a Xerox machine.

“I don’t think that we should underestimate what that [voter ID] could mean. Because, in some people’s minds, that means, ‘Well, you’re gonna have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are.’ Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don’t, there’s not Kinko’s, there’s no OfficeMax near them,” Harris stated.

She continued, “People have to understand that when we’re talking about voter ID laws, be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are. Of course, people have to prove who they are, but not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them to prove who they are.”

The notion that rural Americans cannot photocopy their IDs is outdated as the majority of people nowadays can simply take a photo of their ID with their cell phone.

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‘Fake’ Donald Trump supporters in Swastika t-shirts get instant karma at Florida MAGA boat parade

A group of ‘fake’ Donald Trump supporters with neo-Nazi flags and shirts were doused with water from angry Republicans during a MAGA boat parade.  

The Trump event kicked off in Jupiter, Florida, on Sunday where Republicans have shown their support for the presidential nominee at the same harbor since 2020.

Videos quickly circulated online of a boat filled with men dressed in swastika t-shirts, but Trump supporters were quick to distance themselves from the group, claiming they were ‘infiltrators’ and accusing them of being ‘dirty Dems doing their usual plants’. 

The racist group were seen waving their hands as they shouted: ‘Heil Trump,’ ‘Make America White Again’ and ‘White Power’.

Though Trump fans were encouraged to attend the celebration, which promised attendees ‘an incredible airshow featuring paratroopers,’ the uninvited neo-Nazis appeared to crash the parade. 

The unidentified men hurled hateful messages about Jewish people and yelled the n-word while Trump and swastika flags swayed back and forth behind them. Some of the wayward individuals held up signs and donned masks on their faces.

The viral clip captured the purported neo-Nazis heckling at a boat in front of them on the water in Palm Beach after the parade began from Jupiter Inlet Bridge. 

The other boat, filled with American and Trump flags, then slowed down as the group of men crept closer to the vessel. 

Seconds later water shot out from behind the first boat and sprayed the inconsiderate hooligans making their boat sway to the right. 

As the water surged through the air, a passenger on the boat ahead screamed: ‘Ha, you f****** p****,’ and flashed his middle finger. 

Trump supporters flocked to the video and commended the others for splashing the men. 

‘I watched this too many times. Nobody hates those a**holes more than trump supporters,’ someone wrote. 

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Harris And Walz Both Claim Trump Will “Deploy The Military On Americans Who Don’t Support Him”

During speeches Monday, both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz claimed that president Trump wants to use the military against Americans who disagree with him.

Harris rolled VT of multiple mashed together clips of Trump talking about the threat of the “enemy within,” then spliced in a clip of him talking about radical leftists.

Harris then claimed that Trump wants to use the military against “journalists whose stories he doesn’t like, election officials who refuse to cheat…for him,” and “Judges who insist on following the law instead of bending to his will.”

She then stated that Trump “is increasingly unstable and unhinged. And he is out for unchecked power and control over your lives,” adding “he wants to send the military after American citizens.”

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