Trump pick Monica Crowley faces more plagiarism accusations: report

Monica Crowley, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead communications for the National Security Council, plagiarized multiple passages of her Ph.D. dissertation, Politico Magazine reported Monday.

Politico said that after studying her sources and her dissertation, titled “Clearer Than Truth: Determining and Preserving Grand Strategy: The Evolution of American Policy Toward the People’s Republic of China Under Truman and Nixon,” it has identified more than a dozen sections that appear to have been plagiarized.

Crowley used footnotes to identify her sources in some cases but did not place the material used in quotation marks. In other cases, Politico Magazine said, she copied text directly or paraphrased heavily with no attribution.

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Crowley submitted her dissertation in 2000 in partial completion of her Ph.D. in international relations at Columbia University, the magazine noted.

Over the weekend, CNN reported that Crowley’s book, “What the (Bleep) Just Happened?,” included 50 instances of plagiarism.

CNN notes that the book does not include a bibliography and said she lifted sections from articles in The Wall Street Journal and Yahoo News. She also took language from think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, according to CNN.

Trump’s transition team stood behind Crowley in a statement to the network.

“Monica’s exceptional insight and thoughtful work on how to turn this country around is exactly why she will be serving in the Administration,” a transition team spokesperson told CNN.

“HarperCollins—one of the largest and most respected publishers in the world—published her book which has become a national best-seller. Any attempt to discredit Monica is nothing more than a politically motivated attack that seeks to distract from the real issues facing this country.”

The transition team did not reply to Politico Magazine’s requests for comment.