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Former political commentator Monica Crowley, who has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to fill a key role in his administration, is under fire for allegedly plagiarizing dozens of sources in her 2012 book, “What The Just Happened,” which was published by HarperCollins.
Prior to being tapped by Trump to serve as the senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, Crowley was a Fox News contributor and wrote for the Washington Times.
According to an investigation by CNN’s KFile, nearly four dozen examples of plagiarism were found in Crowley’s book, which was a New York Times bestseller.
Crowley allegedly plagiarized news articles, political columnists, think tank reports and of course, Wikipedia.
More from CNN:. Sections of her book are repeatedly lifted from articles by National Review author Andrew C. McCarthy, who is a friend of Crowley’s.
In a statement to CNN, a Trump transition spokesperson said that any attempt to discredit Crowley “Is nothing more than a politically motivated attack.”
As CNN notes, this isn’t the first time Crowley has been accused of plagiarism.
In 1999, liberal news magazine Slate reported that a Crowley column in the Wall Street Journal mirrored an 1988 article in Commentary Magazine.
At the time, Crowley denied plagiarizing and said that she would never lift someone else’s work without attribution.