'Egregious': Did a Florida Man running for Congress plagiarize his college thesis?

Let’s hand it to Republican congressional hopeful Anthony Sabatini. When he plagiarizes stuff, he goes big, man. The former Florida state House member is fixing to ooze his way into the U.S. Congress, and after this news, one can’t help but wonder if they’ll seat him next to New York Rep. George Santos if he wins. It’s unclear whether the GOP arranges its members alphabetically or by the height of their tall tales—but either way, it works. 

The Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger has done a deep dive into Sabatini’s college career, and it appears that he “wildly plagiarized” some of his academic work. From Wikipedia, no less! That’s like whipping up a batch of flour paste and claiming it’s an original recipe. What’s next? We find out George W. Bush’s cat paintings are all tracings? 

Sabatini, 34, graduated magna cum laude (at least that’s what his biographies say) from the University of Florida, where he wrote his honors thesis on philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Titled “A Profound Logic of the Blood,” the paper appears to be a largely cut-and-paste job from the well-known crowdsourced online encyclopedia, which simply means it wasn’t immediately obvious who exactly Sabatini was plagiarizing from. But, to be clear, it looks all but certain that he committed what’s often a career-killing academic no-no.