- Warren released the results of a DNA test
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Trump slams Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage story as 'fraud against the American public'
On Monday, Warren released the results of a DNA test that suggested she was between 1/32nd and 1/512th Native American.
President Donald Trump slammed Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren for claiming to be a Native American with a tweet on Tuesday which said she defrauded the public by pretending to belong to another ethnicity.
On Monday, Warren released the results of a DNA test that suggested she was between 1/32nd and 1/512th Native American. Trump has consistently attacked her for claiming to have Cherokee heritage while she was a professor at Harvard, often calling her "Pocahontas" as an insult.
She also created a website and released a five-minute video that features her family in Oklahoma, where she was born and raised, alongside the
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"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!" Trump tweeted.
While Warren's claim has not been definitively disproven, her DNA press blitz appeared to backfire heavily.
Warren initially appeared triumphant and challenged Trump to make good on his July promise of donating $1 million to a charity
Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. called the test cited by Warren's report "useless" in determining tribal citizenship. He alleged she was "undermining tribal interests" with her "continued claims of tribal heritage."
"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," Hoskin said in a statement.
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However, Trump's attack on Warren appeared to go too far and become factually wrong when he stated that Harvard "would not have taken" her but for her claims to Native heritage.
The Boston Globe reported in September tha Harvard never considered Warren a Native American during the application process in the 1990s.
Warren has long been an outspoken Trump critic and remains a much-discussed potential presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2020.
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