A former editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation has raised \u201cshocking\u201d allegations of plagiarism against President Joe Biden, claiming that he discovered instances of unattributed copying in an essay written by the then-Delaware senator more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n
The accusations center around an essay defending the Violence Against Women Act, which Biden penned in 2000 during his tenure as a senator.<\/p>\n
Roger Severino, who now serves as the vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation<\/a>, took to social media to detail his findings, igniting a fresh controversy.<\/p>\n \u201cMy first assignment as a junior editor at the Harvard Journal on Legislation (1999-2000) was to cite check an article submitted by one Sen. Joseph R. Biden. I was shocked by the plagiarism I discovered,\u201d Severino posted<\/a> on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n Highlighting specific phrases that had raised his suspicions, Severino said in an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters, \u201cWords like \u2018herald of a new era\u2019 tipped me off. Like, \u2018Whoa, whoa, whoa, I\u2019ve heard this before.’\u201d<\/p>\n My first assignment as a junior editor at the Harvard Journal on Legislation (1999-2000) was to cite check an article submitted by one Sen. Joseph R. Biden. I was shocked by the plagiarism I discovered. https:\/\/t.co\/0CSqJBZR7E<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) September 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Severino\u2019s accusations come on the heels of a broader examination of Biden\u2019s veracity by Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post<\/a>, who has scrutinized the president\u2019s tendency to embellish facts.<\/p>\n Addressing this pattern, Severino stated, \u201cHe tends to embellish, and he tends to lie, and as your segment showed, he has decades of history doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n The crux of Severino\u2019s allegations centers on Biden\u2019s purported failure to properly credit Federal Judge Diana Gribbon Motz\u2019s dissenting opinion in the case of Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic Institute<\/a> in 1999,\u00a0New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n In that case, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declared a portion of the 1994 law as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n Severino contended that the published version of Biden\u2019s essay included several citations from Motz\u2019s opinion, but the attributions were reportedly inserted by journal editors who, in Severino\u2019s view, were covering for Biden.<\/p>\n Severino alleged<\/a>, \u201cHe had lifted language straight out of a SCOTUS opinion, changed a couple words, and called them his own. There were no quote marks and no footnote or anything else attributing the court as the source.\u201d<\/p>\n President Biden has a history of embellishing, lying, and plagiarizing. Well, it turns out, there\u2019s even more plagiarism than we thought.@RogerSeverino_<\/a> was a junior editor at the Harvard Journal when he told his editors he\u2019d found more Biden plagiarism. They covered it up. pic.twitter.com\/9hY7fA7QqI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n He went on to assert<\/a> that Biden had engaged in a form of plagiarism known as \u201cmosaic plagiarism,\u201d where a writer modifies a few words in a quote to make the act harder to detect. Severino interpreted this as an indication of \u201cconsciousness of guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n Severino claimed to have brought the plagiarism<\/a> concerns to the executive editor of the journal, recommending that they reject Biden\u2019s article.<\/p>\n However, according to Severino, the editors decided to address the issue by adding proper attributions, effectively \u201cfixing\u201d the plagiarism. Severino said they acted as if the incident had never occurred.<\/p>\n In response to Severino\u2019s allegations, White House spokeswoman Olivia Dalton vehemently denied the claims, stating, \u201cThe final article has appropriate citations, and that fact is not in dispute. So I\u2019m not about to further dignify ridiculous attacks on the president from decades ago.\u201d<\/p>\n The Harvard Journal of Legislation has not issued a statement regarding the matter, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n As president, Biden has continued a tradition of embellishing his personal tales in ways that cannot be verified or are directly refuted by contemporaneous accounts. \u2066@GlennKesslerWP<\/a>\u2069 breaks them down. https:\/\/t.co\/AZQu07GLOE<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Severino said he decided to come forward with these allegations from more than 20 years ago because Biden has \u201cbeen doing this for decades, and the American people have to know.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s never owned up to his plagiarism scandals and his constant embellishments,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Biden has faced past accusations of plagiarism, notably during his first presidential campaign in 1988, when he was found to have lifted quotes from then-British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock<\/a>, misrepresenting his family\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Kinnock, who has since moved past the plagiarism controversy, supported Biden wholeheartedly in the 2020 presidential election, stating, \u201cJoe\u2019s an honest guy,\u201d the The Guardian<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Biden Accused of \u2018Mosaic\u2019 Plagiarism After Editor Noticed Oddly Familiar Phrases In Paper<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation has raised \u201cshocking\u201d allegations of plagiarism against President Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n