At a July 5 rally in Montana, President Donald Trump went on a lengthy rant about one of his favorite targets: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and her claim to Native American ancestry.
Even then, Warren was rumored to be a likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. Trump, with glee, told the rally crowd he looked forward to making Warren “prove” her Native American heritage on the debate stage if the two were to square off.
“I’m going to get one of those little [DNA testing] kits and in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims she’s of Indian heritage…,” Trump said. “And we will say, ‘I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian.’ ”
The crowd cheered.
“And let’s see what she does,” Trump continued. “I have a feeling she will say no, but we’ll hold that for the debates. Do me a favor. Keep it within this room?”
After that Montana debate, Warren brushed off Trump’s taunts as she had multiple times before, whenever he deployed his derisive “Pocahontas” nickname for her.
Early Monday morning, however, Warren called Trump’s months-long bluff by releasing a DNA test that suggested she did have a distant Native American ancestor.
Warren also indicated she hadn’t forgotten about Trump’s promise in July.
“Remember saying on 7/5 that you’d give $1M to a charity of my choice if my DNA showed Native American ancestry?” she tweeted Monday. “I remember – and here’s the verdict. Please send the check to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center.”
The charity she chose is a nonprofit that seeks to protect Native American women from violence.
“Send them your $1M check, @realDonaldTrump,” Warren added.
Warren said she took the test because she had “nothing to hide” – then dared Trump to release his tax returns.
Standing on a soggy White House lawn Monday, Trump denied he had ever made the promise.
“Who cares?” he told reporters, when asked if he had heard about Warren releasing the results of her DNA test.
Another reporter brought up his promise of a $1 million charity donation.
“I didn’t say that,” Trump said. “Nah, you’d better read it again.”
Soon after, the Hill posted a fact-checked headline: “Trump denies offering $1 million for Warren DNA test, even though he did.”
Earlier Monday, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, dismissed Warren’s DNA test as “junk science,” an early indication that Trump is not likely to follow through on the donation promise he now denies having made.
“I haven’t looked at the test. I know that everybody likes to pick their junk science or sound science depending on the conclusion, it seems some days,” Conway told reporters. “But I haven’t looked at the DNA test and it really doesn’t interest me… ”
Immediately after denying he had promised to donate to a charity of Warren’s choice, Trump seemed to welcome her as an opponent in 2020.
“I hope she’s running for president because I think she’d be very easy,” Trump told reporters. “I hope that she is running. I do not think she’d be difficult at all, she’d destroy our country. She’d make our country into Venezuela. With that being said I don’t want to say bad things about her because I hope she’d be one of the people that would get through the process.”
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It’s quite clear from POTUS quoted words that he DID NOT make a commitment to give her a million dollars, rather he would do so if and when he and Warren will square off in an unspicified future debate and challenge her with a DNA kit. That never happened. Besides the fact that what Ms. Warren actually proved today is that she is LESS LIKELY to be of Indian descent then the average American!
The following was coppied from FoxNews:
According to the analysis, if Warren’s great-great-great-grandmother were Native American, she would be considered 1/64 Native American. Should Warren’s ancestor date back 10 generations, she would be only 1/1,024 Native American. (The [Boston Globe] originally pegged the figures as 1/32 and 1/512, but in a correction that didn’t do Warren any favors, later added a note saying, “Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 6th to 10th generation relative. The generational range based on the ancestor that the report identified suggests she’s between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American.”)
“To put that in perspective, Warren might even be less Native American than the average European American,” Republican National Committee Deputy Communications Director Mike Reed said in an email, while saying this would “not give you the right to claim minority status.”
Warren has proven to be less Native American than most Americans. Why should the President give her even a dime?