Big Chief Elizabeth Warren releases DNA test to PROVE she has Native American ancestors, but there’s a problem with the results…

by The Right Scoop

Big Chief Elizabeth Warren apparently wants to put this whole ‘Native American’ controversy behind her as she eyes running for president in 2020. So this morning she released a DNA test and here’s what it revealed:

The Hill – Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday publicly released results of a DNA test that a top researcher said “strongly support” the existence of a Native American ancestor.

Warren gave the results of the analysis, conducted by Stanford University professor and MacArthur genius Carlos Bustamante, to The Boston Globe.

Bustamante said that Warren’s test results show the “vast majority” of her ancestry is European, but that “the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor,” likely 6-10 generations ago.

So that would make Warren at most 1/64 Native American and possibly even less, considering it could be 10 generations:

 
Apparently the Globe, who originally reported the story, said that would make Warren 1/32 Native American:

 
1/64 to 1/1024? And yet here’s the kicker, according to the Globe article:

With only 1/64 to 1/1024, she actually changed her ethnicity to Native American! As I understand it you have to be much closer to 1/16 to legitimately make such a claim.

So is this controversy over? I don’t think so. Trump said this morning that the he hopes she runs for president because she’ll be easy to defeat:

 
He also denied that he offered one million for her to take a DNA test:

But according to The Hill, here’s the quote:

During a campaign rally on July 5, Trump taunted Warren for her claims of Native American ancestry, a staple of his campaign stump speeches.

“I will give you a million dollars, paid for by Trump, to your favorite charity, if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian,” Trump said at the time. “I have a feeling she will say ‘no.’ ”

* * * SEE UPDATE BELOW FOR MORE CONTEXT AROUND THIS QUOTE * * *

Perhaps the biggest takeaway from all of this is that the fake news media thinks this is proof that Big Chief Elizabeth Warren isn’t a big fat liar:

As John Hayward notes in response to my story…

Stop and think for a minute: almost the entire media got this story exactly backward, on purpose, and claimed the test “vindicated” Warren instead of conclusively proving she’s a liar. That’s the state of Fake News Media today.

SAD!

UPDATE: If you read the entire portion where Trump offered to pay Big Chief Liz Warren 1 million for a DNA test, you’ll see he was right this morning when he said he never made the promise.

Here it is via The Hill:

“But let’s say I’m debating Pocahontas, I’ll do this.

I promise you I’ll do this, you know those little kits they sell on television for $2? Learn your heritage. I’m going to get one of those little kits and in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims she’s of Indian heritage — because her mother said she has high cheekbones, that’s her only evidence.

We will take that little kit, we have to do it gently because we’re in the “Me Too” generation, we have to be very gentle. We will very gently take that kit and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesn’t hit her and injure her arm, even though it only weighs probably 2 oz.

And we will say, ‘I will give you a million dollars, paid for by Trump, to your favorite charity if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian. And we’ll see what she does. I have a feeling she will say no but we will hold it for the debates.”

It was in the context of a future hypothetical debate and wasn’t actually a promise to give one million to her charity if she actually did a DNA test.


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