Reuters / Kevin Lamarque
Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Sen. Elizabeth Warren, calling her claims of Native American ancestry a “scam and a lie” a day after she released DNA test results to prove them. Trump has repeatedly publicly doubted Warren’s ancestry but her DNA test results released Monday provided “strong evidence” that she has some Native American blood. The Cherokee Nation also criticized her move Monday, saying it “undermined tribal interests” by muddying what criterion is used to establish certification in it. Trump tweeted early Tuesday: “Pocahontas (the bad version), sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Warren, is getting slammed. She took a bogus DNA test and it showed that she may be 1/1024, far less than the average American. Now Cherokee Nation denies her, ‘DNA test is useless.’ Even they don’t want her. Phony!” The results actually stated Warren was somewhere between 1/64 and 1/1,024 Native American. The president went on, falsely charging: “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!”