Harvard’s Plagiarist President Is Out, But There’s Still One in the White House

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After investigating the numerous accusations leveled against her, Harvard’s disgraced president Claudine Gay, in one of the most prominent university scandals of the decade, has been ousted after the discovery of her serial plagiarism throughout her academic career.

But, as we begin asking how this could have happened in the first place, conservative writer Phil Kerpen has helpfully reminded us on X (formerly Twitter) that another president is also a “serial plagiarist.”

The year is 1987. Joe Biden has launched his first ill-fated presidential campaign. As ridiculous as it might seem in hindsight, the Biden of 1987 seemed like a fresh hope for the Democratic Party, a real front-runner in the race now that Reagan was completing his second term.

Indeed, according to TIME Magazine, Biden had been seen as a real contender since 1972, when he was first elected to the Senate. The perception in 1987 was that Biden was a straight arrow, a contender with more moral character than the original front-runner, Gary Hart, who, that same year, had been forced to drop out from the race when the public learned about the married man’s affair with model Donna Rice.

In this race, Biden’s age was an asset rather than an impediment, as many found his relative youth encouraging and refreshing. According to veteran political reporter Laurence I. Barrett, “There was this thought, not really based on a lot of facts, that the Democrats were too soft, too feminine, too much into interest politics, and Biden was seen by his own people as an antidote to that — good looking and athletic — who would come across as stronger.”

Sure, Biden had his liabilities (specifically his inability to think on his feet and his recurring tendency to run his mouth when enraged, according to Barrett), but Biden and his party hoped that his role in chairing the Robert Bork hearings would help bolster his presidential aspirations.

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