06-27-2016, 10:04 PM
Dan Wrote:Donald Trump can’t find a way to criticize Elizabeth Warren without demeaning Native Americans.
In theory, Trump has a good line of attack against the Massachusetts senator. She has claimed to have Cherokee ancestry, but this claim rests on family lore and is historically dubious.
Warren might want to do the DNA test if she thinks the family lore thing is solid and based on somebody in the family's genealogy research. I don't think the DNA test can nail down the exact tribe since a lot of tribe don't become a reference population due to past screw jobs.
Quote:But Trump and his allies, including former Senator Scott Brown, whom Warren ousted in 2012, can’t help but turn an attack on Warren’s false claim into mockery of Native Americans. “She can take a DNA test,” Brown suggested. As The Washington Post notes, “The storyline eventually backfired on Brown, especially after some campaign workers were filmed war-whooping and making ‘tomahawk chops’ at Warren.”
Obviously a dumb move. I suppose Scott Brown can just go all in and get some fake tee pees from Amazon.
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It's for sure fake because there's a window among other things.
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