--- description: Monica Crowley, who has been accused of plagiarizing parts of her book, said she will turn down a national-security job offered by Trump title: Monica Crowley Forgoes Trump Administration Role Amid Plagiarism Allegations image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt011b048f95a2eb99/6988b5b38fd2ee377635566f/gettyimages-131881737.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [White House](/tag/white-house/) ## White House Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Monica Crowley Forgoes Donald Trump Administration Role Amid Plagiarism Allegations  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jan 16, 2017 8:03 PM CUT  Monica Crowley attends the 2011 FIDF National New York Gala at The Waldorf-Astoria on March 22, 2011 in New York City. Monica Crowley attends the 2011 FIDF National New York Gala at The Waldorf-Astoria on March 22, 2011 in New York City.Shahar Azran—WireImage  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jan 16, 2017 8:03 PM CUT Pundit Monica Crowley, who has been accused of plagiarizing parts of her book and Ph.D. dissertation, said Monday that she would not accept the national-security communications post that President-elect Donald Trump had previously offered her. Crowley was to be the senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council and would not have had to go through confirmation proceedings. [She said in a statement](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/16/trump-national-security-spokeswoman-monica-crowley-to-forgo-post-amid-plagiarism-charges/?utm%5Fterm=.21b7c05d5d47 "undefined") that she “will not be taking a position in the incoming Administration” but did not mention the plagiarism charges. She went on: “I greatly appreciate being asked to be part of President-elect Trump’s team and I will continue to enthusiastically support him and his agenda for American renewal,” according to the Washington _Post_. CNN and Politico first reported the charges of plagiarism. CNN [identified](http://money.cnn.com/interactive/news/kfile-trump-monica-crowley-plagiarized-multiple-sources-2012-book/?iid=EL "undefined") passages of her 2012 book, _What the (Bleep) Just Happened_, that had been lifted from columnists, articles and think tanks without proper attribution. Politico [reported](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/monica-crowley-plagiarism-phd-dissertation-columbia-214612 "undefined") that more than a dozen sections of her dissertation appeared to be directly copied from scholarly works, with little or no changes made to the text. Initially, Trump’s transition team defended Crowley in a statement, saying that “any attempt to discredit Monica is nothing more than a politically motivated attack that seeks to distract from the real issues facing this country.” Publisher HarperCollins suspended sales of the book last week, issuing a statement that said it had “reached the end of its natural sales cycle.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4635841/monica-crowley-donald-trump-plagiarism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4635841/monica-crowley-donald-trump-plagiarism/"},"headline":"Monica Crowley Forgoes Donald Trump Administration Role Amid Plagiarism Allegations","datePublished":"2017-01-16T20:03:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:44:48.811Z","description":"Parts of her book and Ph.D. dissertation appear to be copied from other sources without attribution","url":"https://time.com/4635841/monica-crowley-donald-trump-plagiarism/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt011b048f95a2eb99/6988b5b38fd2ee377635566f/gettyimages-131881737.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt011b048f95a2eb99/6988b5b38fd2ee377635566f/gettyimages-131881737.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2011 FIDF National New York Gala","caption":"2011 FIDF National New York Gala","creditText":"Shahar Azran—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4635841/monica-crowley-donald-trump-plagiarism/","name":"Monica Crowley Forgoes Donald Trump Administration Role Amid Plagiarism Allegations"}}]}] ```