DAILY WIRE
Just hours after Christopher Rufo reported that Vice President Kamala Harris had allegedly plagiarized multiple sections of her 2009 book, “Smart on Crime,” Rufo reported that the book’s publisher had accidentally sent him an email showing it was in “damage-control mode.”
“BREAKING: Kamala Harris’s publisher, Chronicle Books, is in damage control mode. The company accidentally sent my team an internal communication indicating that VP Lauren Hoffman is requiring that all inquiries about Harris’s plagiarism go through the higher ups,” Rufo posted on X.
He included a screenshot of an email — which he said was sent to him by accident — that instructed employees to funnel any questions about the alleged plagiarism through the top brass.
The missive, sent at 3:31 pm PDT Monday, came under the subject line “publicity.”
“Per Lauren Hoffman (VP, Executive Director of Marketing and Publicity) please do not respond or comment on any inquiries regarding SMART ON CRIME, and please continue to forward them directly to me. Really appreciate your help on this it is a sensitive topic.”
Several mainstream media outlets picked up Rufo’s story, but only to criticize him.
“Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book,” the New York Times headline read. The article went on to explain that a “plagiarism expert” had determined that the obviously lifted passages were “not serious.”
“Somebody hang this in the Louvre,” Rufo said of the NYT piece. “The New York Times claims that I ‘seize[d] on’ Kamala Harris’s serial plagiarism. Admits later in the story that it is, in fact, plagiarism. And then calls noticing that fact ‘racist.’”
