WASHINGTON, DC. (THECOUNT) — Elizabeth Warren wanted to “own” Trump with her DNA test results, but instead, she ended up owning herself and created 2018’s most disastrous – self-imposed, PR nightmare.
After rolling out her DNA test, that proves she’s in denial, Warren, who has received unprecedented backlash from Cherokee Indians and other Native American groups, is trying to walk back her claims. Bad situation, worse?
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Via Daily Wire:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who claimed to be Native American when a DNA study showed she has as little as .09% Indian blood, is still trying to explain away her assertion.
Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat running for re-election who President Trump has dubbed “Pocahontas” for her claim, released the results of the DNA test on Sunday with about three weeks to go before Election Day in an attempt to “begin deflecting the constant taunting from the president and her Senate challengers,” The Boston Globe reported.
“I have an election,” Warren said. “Donald Trump goes in front of crowds multiple times a week to attack me. Both of my opponents have made the same attack. I got this analysis back, and I made it public.” source
The Cherokee Nation’s secretary of state, Chuck Hoskin Jr., released a scathing statement on Monday, saying “a DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship.”
“Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage,” Hoskin wrote.