President Trump on Tuesday said Sen. Elizabeth Warren should apologize for carrying out a “fraud against the American people” after she released DNA testing findings that showed she has Native American ancestry – even if might be as little as 1/1,024th.
“Now that her claims of being of Indian heritage have turned out to be a scam and a lie, Elizabeth Warren should apologize for perpetrating this fraud against the American Public. Harvard called her ‘a person of color’ (amazing con), and would not have taken her otherwise!,” he wrote in three tweets about the Massachusetts Democrat.
In another, he called her the “(bad version) of Pocahontas” and said she has been “trashed” for releasing the results that concluded her ancestry may “just be 1/1,024th.”
Trump also thanked the Cherokee Nation, which called her use of a DNA test to determine tribal citizenship “inappropriate and wrong,” for “revealing” that Warren is a “total Fraud.”
The Massachusetts lawmaker said a Stanford University professor conducted the analysis and found that a pure Native American ancestor appears in Warren’s family in the “range of 6-10 generations ago.”
That spread means she could have as much as 1/64th Native American blood or as little as 1/1,024th.
A campaign-style video Warren, likely to be a presidential candidate in 2020, posted on her Facebook page included testimonials from law professors at law schools where she taught shooting down the notion that used her heritage in any way to advance her career.
“Her name with respect to racial minority hires, no, never,” said Randall Kennedy, a law professor at Harvard Law.
But the school did tout her heritage after she was hired there in the 1990s.
On Monday, Trump initially said “who cares?” when asked about her DNA test and denied that he offered her $1 million if she could prove her ancestry.
Later, he said he would pay up but only “if I can test her personally.”




