A Harvard Law School student has accused President Biden of plagiarizing an article he wrote more than two decades ago.
Roger Severino claimed Thursday night that he was working as a junior editor at the Harvard Journal of Legislation in 2000 when he found multiple instances of copying in an essay the then-Delaware senator wrote defending the Violence Against Women Act.
“Words like ‘herald of a new era’ gave me a tip,” Severino told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “Like, ‘Whoa, wait, wait, I’ve heard this before.’”
According to Severino, Biden failed to properly give credence to the dissenting opinion of Federal Judge Diana Gribbon Motz in Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
In that 1999 case, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down part of the 1994 law as unconstitutional.
Roger Severino, vice president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, has come forward to accuse President Biden of plagiarism.Fox News
The published version of the essay contains several quotes from Motz’s opinion, and Severino claims they were inserted by the magazine’s editors who “covered up for Biden.”
Severino, who now serves as vice president for domestic policy at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, wrote in X this week that “I was surprised by the plagiarism I discovered.
“[Biden] He had taken the language directly from a [federal court] opinion, he changed a couple of words and called them his own. There were no quotation marks or footnotes or anything that he attributed to the court as a source,” he stated.
He claims that a 2000 article Biden wrote when he was a senator “took the language directly from a [federal court] Opinion.” Harvard University
Severino went on to explain that the current commander in chief had committed “mosaic plagiarism,” in which a writer takes a quote and exchanges a few words “to make the plagiarism harder to detect.”
“This indicates what in law is known as ‘consciousness of guilt,’” he said.
Severino said he reported the issue to the magazine’s executive editor and recommended that he decline to publish Biden’s article.
Severino spoke about the incident on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Thursday night, explaining that he came forward to let the American people know that the president “never acknowledged his plagiarism scandals and constant embellishments.” foxnews
Instead, he says, the editors “added quotation marks and citations to fix the problem.”
“They ‘fixed’ the plagiarism by adding proper attribution and acted as if the entire incident never happened,” he tweeted.
“But it was not an innocent mistake that Biden ‘forgot’ one or two quotes, which would be bad enough,” Severino said, noting that the politician “was already known to have plagiarized before this article reached my desk, but it was brazen enough.” try it again”.
He had previously explained what happened on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“I think they sanitized it and then let it through,” Severino told Watters of his then superiors. “They just acted quietly like it never happened.”
White House spokeswoman Olivia Dalton told The Post on Friday that Severino’s claims were “demonstrably false.”
“The final article has appropriate citations and that fact is not in doubt,” Dalton said in an email. “So I’m not going to further dignify the ridiculous attacks against the president going back decades.”
The Harvard Journal of Legislation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
When asked why he decided to come forward with the accusations 23 years after the fact, Severino said of Biden: “The problem is that he has been doing this for decades, and the American people need to know that. He never acknowledged his plagiarism scandals and constant embellishments.”
The president was criticized for plagiarism when he first ran for the White House in 1988. Getty Images
The president admitted in a 1965 letter to professors at Syracuse University Law School, his alma mater, that he made a “mistake” by tearing five pages out of a law journal article without attributing it.
“My intention was not to deceive anyone,” he wrote in the letter, which reappeared in the New York Times in 1987. “Because if I was, I wouldn’t have been so brazen.”
Biden received an “F” for the job, but was allowed to retake the course.
The plagiarism scandal helped sink Biden’s first presidential campaign, along with the revelation that he had copied quotes from then-British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock, changing geographical details to falsely claim in speeches that “my ancestors… worked in the coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania. And he would come after 12 hours and play soccer for four hours.”
Unlike Kinnock, who was describing his own family in Wales, Biden’s ancestors did not mine coal.
Kinnock, now a member of the UK House of Lords, appears to have overcome the plagiarism and wholeheartedly supported Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
“Joe is an honest guy,” Kinnock told The Guardian at the time. “Yeah [then-President Donald] “If Trump had done it, I would know he was lying.”
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