Trump often referred to President-elect  Joe Biden as "Sleepy Joe" and brought up  

the Swine Flu as evidence that Biden could  not take over a pandemic-stricken America.  

On the other hand, Biden dug into the  reignited Black Lives Matter movement  

in America and declared Trump "one of the most  racist presidents we've had in modern history."

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris also  received her fair share of disapproval  

from Trump. In an interview following the  October 2020 vice presidential debate,  

Trump called Harris a "monster" and  "unlikeable." It's safe to assume  

that any person running for political office is  prepared to face the fiercest criticism. However,  

Harris might not have anticipated the  latest reason she's in hot water. An  

interview Harris did with Elle magazine has  resurfaced, and it's already haunting her.

The Elle interview from October 2020 is making  the rounds again because people are accusing  

the vice president-elect of plagiarizing  Martin Luther King Jr. In the interview,  

Harris tells a story supposedly from her  childhood about when she became briefly  

separated from her mother at a civil  rights march in Oakland, California,  

after falling out of her stroller. Once they  reunited, Harris says this exchange happened:

"My mother tells the story about  how I'm fussing, and she's like,  

'Baby, what do you want? What do you need?' And  I just looked at her and I said, 'Fweedom.'”

Several Twitter users noted that the story  is shockingly similar to one told by MLK  

in a January 1965 interview with  Playboy magazine. In his narrative,  

the civil rights icon tells a story of a 7-  or 8-year-old Black girl who marched with her  

mom in a protest in Birmingham, Alabama, and  was accosted by policemen. According to King,

"'What do you want?' the policeman asked her  gruffly, and the little girl looked at him  

straight in the eye and answered, 'Fee-dom.'  She couldn't even pronounce it, but she knew.  

It was beautiful! Many times when I  have been in sorely trying situations,  

the memory of that little one has come  into my mind, and has buoyed me.”"

This is not the first time Harris has used  this "Fweedom" anecdote. She referenced it  

in her 2010 book Smart on Crime and detailed  it again in her 2019 book The Truths We Hold:  

An American Journey. She also told the  story to Jimmy Fallon in June 2020.

"And she said, 'Kamala, what do you want?'  And I said, and this is how she would say  

it, and she said, 'Kamala, what do  you want?' and I said, 'Fweedom.'"

Naturally, people took to the internet to  air their grievances about Kamala Harris'  

strikingly familiar story. One Twitter user wrote,

"She is learning how to plagiarize and lie  like Biden. They make a good con artist team."

Another person wondered why she didn't  just give credit to Martin Luther King  

Jr. instead of possibly fabricating  an entire story. And several people,  

in fact, mentioned that Harris was following  in the footsteps of Joe Biden. The former vice  

president came under fire in 2019 for his "Plan  for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental  

Justice," which included sentences copied directly  from environment groups with no credit given,  

according to NBC News. This was not the  first time he had been accused of plagiarism.

Opponents of Biden and Harris had previously  used plagiarism accusations as a way to weaken  

the public's trust in the team. Sean Hannity  of Fox News reminded his viewers in July 2020,

"Plagiarism [is] nothing new  for Joe Biden. In the 1980s,  

he was forced to end his presidential campaign  [when] he was caught red-handed plagiarizing  

a British politician by the name of Neil  Kinnock word-for-word on multiple occasions."

Furthermore, people were quick to point out  that this isn't the first time Harris has  

been associated with plagiarism. Politico reported  in 2019 that Harris appeared to plagiarize parts  

of the since-deleted gender equality section  of her website. The publication noticed that  

Harris seemed to use information from the American  Heart Association website also without citation.

The vice president-elect has not  addressed the most recent allegations,  

as of the making of this video.

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