WASHINGTON — A conservative media personality tapped by the incoming Donald Trump administration for a top communications role was accused Saturday of plagiarizing sections of her 2012 book, CNN reported.
The president-elect has nominated Monica Crowley, a talk-radio host and Fox News commentator, to a senior communications job with the National Security Council.
After reviewing her book “What The (Bleep) Just Happened,” CNN reported finding some 50 sections copied — some with minor changes — from news articles, websites, think-tank reports and Wikipedia.
A section on Keynesian economics, for example, came almost directly from a 2009 article published on investopedia.com.
The Trump team defended Crowley in a statement, saying her “exceptional insight and thoughtful work on how to turn this country around is exactly why she will be serving in the administration.”
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“Any attempt to discredit Monica is nothing more than a politically motivated attack that seeks to distract from the real issues facing the country,” CNN quoted the statement as saying, without confirming or denying the accusations of plagiarism.
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