Former Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini, who is currently running for Congress, is the subject of a Daily Beast report that accuses him of plagiarizing his undergrad thesis, lifting several passages from Wikipedia and other sources.
Sabatini is a darling of the MAGA crowd who likes to tout his academic background; a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Florida, he was a double major in history and philosophy who went on to law school at the same institution, earning his juris doctorate in 2017. But according to the Daily Beast, he may not have earned his way in. Roger Sollenberger looked into Sabatini’s undergrad thesis about German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and said it was “wildly plagiarized”: