A Monday morning funny for you. It’s an Associated Press article that is being repeated ad nauseum all over the news media, including places that have little to do with a Senator from Massachusetts.
Warren took DNA test to help rebuild “trust in governmentâ€
Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Sunday that she changed her mind recently and took a DNA test proving her heritage because Americans’ trust in government is “at an all-time low” and she wanted to help rebuild it by being transparent.
The incumbent Massachusetts senator spoke at her second debate against Republican state Rep. Geoff Diehl in the U.S. Senate race.
She was asked by a moderator why she had said, in March, that no DNA test was needed to prove she had some Native American heritage. She said she ultimately took the test, reporting the result last week that showed a relative six to 10 generations ago was Native American.
Ultimately, she said, she took a DNA test because she believes one way to rebuild trust in government is by posting her full family history online “so anybody can take a look. … I believe one way that we try to rebuild confidence is through transparency.”
It’s a cute little deflection as she tries to maintain that she’s some sort of Native American, despite only having a 1/1024 link, and they aren’t even sure which Indian tribe she’s linked to, if any. She surely took the test in order to “clap back” at President Trump, and figured that the Compliant Media would provide coverage for her. They didn’t as much as she thought.
If she really wanted to rebuild trust in government, she’d back reducing the size and scope of the federal government, putting the power back in the hands of the states where it belongs, except for those delegated powers, like stopping illegal immigration.
Diehl shot back that the issue “is not about Sen. Warren’s ancestry, it’s about integrity in my mind, and I don’t care whether you think you benefited or not from that claim, it’s the fact that you tried to benefit from that claim that I think bothers a lot of people and it’s something you haven’t been able to put to rest since the 2012 campaign,” when she first mentioned having Native American heritage that led President Donald Trump to start mocking her by calling her “Pocahontas.”
He added, “I don’t care what percentage she claims to be Native American; I just care that I’m 100 percent for Massachusetts and will be working for the people of this state.”
Sadly, this is Massachusetts, so, he’s still going to lose to her.
