Trump's Pick For National Security Council Position A Plagiarist

Before there was Melania Trump, there was neo- fascist Putin poodle Donald "Rump" Trump's choice for senior director of strategic plagiarism communications for the National Security Council, Monica "Who The (Bleep) Did I Just Plagiarize" Crowley:

Conservative author and television personality Monica Crowley, whom Donald Trump has tapped for a top national security communications role, plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book, a CNN KFile review has found. 

The review of Crowley’s June 2012 book, "What The (Bleep) Just Happened," found upwards of 50 examples of plagiarism from numerous sources, including the copying with minor changes of news articles, other columnists, think tanks, and Wikipedia. The New York Times bestseller, published by the HarperCollins imprint Broadside Books, contains no notes or bibliography. [snip] 

In the book, Crowley lifted an entire section on Keynesian economics from the IAC-owned website Investopedia. 

In one instance, Crowley lists a variety of so-called "pork" items she claimed were part of the 2009 stimulus package. Many of the instances were copied wholesale from a conservative list of pork barrel spending, with some items dating back to the 1990s. Most of the copied instances were listed on a website for a podiatrist dating back to 2004. (our emphasis)

She's plagiarized sh*t from a podiatrist's website?  (Insert any foot- in mouth- type pun here, e.g., "You've got to be pretty low to do that.")

CNN KFile's Andrew Kaczynski discovered the staggering level of plagiarism in the book, and provides a comprehensive side- by- side comparison of Crowley's cut- and- paste expertise at the link above. Kaczynski also notes that it's not the first time that Crowley's been caught plagiarizing:

Crowley has been accused of plagiarism before. In 1999, Slate reported a column by Crowley in the Wall Street Journal mirrored a 1988 article in Commentary, the neoconservative magazine. 

"Had we known of the parallels, we would not have published the article," a Journal editor’s note said at the time. Crowley denied the charge at the time, saying, "I did not, nor would I ever, use material from a source without citing it."

Riiight!

(Photo: Serial plagiarist Monica Crowley, cut and pasted from another website.)