If Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) though she was finally putting the “Pocahontas” controversy to rest, she was sorely mistaken.
Late Tuesday, Trump went after Warren—demanding she apologize for perpetuating a “fraud” against the American public for publicly identifying as a Native American.
Thank you to the Cherokee Nation for revealing that Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is a complete and total Fraud!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2018
Warren had been accused of lying about being a Native American in the 1980s and 1990s to further her career as a law professor. Warren had been hired by Harvard, who then touted her as their first “woman of color” law professor.
Despite being blonde-haired and blue-eyed, Warren continued to double-down on her claims—going so far as releasing a DNA test on Tuesday morning which she claimed proved she was telling the truth.
Pocahontas (the bad version), sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Warren, is getting slammed. She took a bogus DNA test and it showed that she may be 1/1024, far less than the average American. Now Cherokee Nation denies her, “DNA test is useless.” Even they don’t want her. Phony!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2018
The only problem was that, while Warren did have some Native American ancestry, it was so remote that no logical person would consider it to be evidence of minority status. Warren is somewhere between 1/64 and 1/1024 Native American—anywhere between 1.5% and 0.09%, which is in line with (or potentially even less) than the average for a white American.