After Years Of Trump Mockery, Warren DNA Analysis Shows Native American Heritage

on August 21, 2018 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 21: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks at the National Press Club August 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. Warren spoke on ending corruption in the nation's capital during her remarks. (Photo by ... WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 21: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks at the National Press Club August 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. Warren spoke on ending corruption in the nation's capital during her remarks. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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BOSTON (AP) — Responding to years of derision by President Donald Trump and other critics, Sen. Elizabeth Warren had a DNA analysis done that provides strong evidence she does, in fact, have Native American heritage.

The analysis on the Massachusetts Democrat was done by Stanford University professor Carlos D. Bustamante, The Boston Globe reported Monday. He concluded Warren’s ancestry is mostly European but says “the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor.”

Bustamante, a prominent expert in the field of DNA analysis, determined Warren’s pure Native American ancestor appears “in the range of six to 10 generations ago.”

That meshes with Warren’s narrative that her great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was at least partially Native American. That would make Warren 1/32nd Native American.

But if her ancestor is 10 generations back, that could mean she’s just 1/512th Native American, something that could further excite her critics instead of placating them.

Those critics have charged that Warren advanced her career with a narrative she is a descendant of Cherokee and Delaware tribes. Trump has repeatedly mocked her as “Pocahontas,” going so far as to offer $1 million to a charity of her choice if she took a DNA test that proved her claims.

Warren is seeking re-election to a second term in Massachusetts and is a potential 2020 presidential contender. Her Senate campaign produced a video posted on The Globe’s website in which Warren says: “The president likes to call my mom a liar. What do the facts say?”

Bustamante replies: “The facts suggest that you absolutely have Native American ancestry in your pedigree.”

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  1. Now…

    Let’s test McCarthy’s in-laws.

  2. Trump has repeatedly mocked her as “Pocahontas,” going so far as to offer $1 million to a charity of her choice if she took a DNA test that proved her claims.

    Odds on reneging on another deal.
    1,000,000,000.00 to 1

  3. By making them watch re-runs of “F-Troop.”

  4. This indicates to me that she is seriously considering running for POTUS. This will disarm at least part of Spanky’s and his minions scorn but, of course, she is still a woman.

  5. Avatar for docd docd says:

    He didn’t stop lying about Obama’s birth certificate. Why should he stop mocking her for this?
    It’s not as if his supporters are demanding that he support his assertions.

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