With lips firmly planted on Donald Trump’s backside, Florida Republican Anthony Sabatini has ridden his short MAGA-surfing political career from a rising wave in 2018 to a spectacular failure in a 2022 Congressional campaign. But as the Daily Beast outlines, Sabatini’s credentials are at “Baruch College volleyball player”-level fraud, but it appears to be approaching it.
The 34-year-old University of Florida alum–who got degrees from both the undergraduate school and its law school–appears to have lifted entire portions of the paper entitled “A Profound Logic of The Blood” from Wikipedia and other sources. The very first paragraph of the paper, available for review on a University of Florida online archive online, was lifted, nearly verbatim, from a 1992 academic review from the University of California.
Another paragraph of the paper replicates, nearly identically, a passage from Wikipedia, with only reordering phrases and inserted superfluous adjectives noted as changes. Reviewing the work, a Stanford University professor ran the paper through services that check for plagiarism, finding “egregious” copying and duplication of others’ works without credit.