CNN’s Jake Tapper has it from a reliable source that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is definitely “not a Cherokee citizen.”
Tapper tweeted the quote by a friend following President Trump’s reference to the Massachusetts Democrat as Pocahontas, an often repeated taunt by the president about Warren’s questionable self-proclaimed Native American heritage.
Native American friend of mine on Trump calling her “Pocahontas”: “It is a slur for sure and broadly stereotyping Indigenous people.”
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— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28, 2017
Also, he says, “a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, I know they did a formal review and she is not a Cherokee citizen.” 2/2
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 28, 2017
The president made his latest comment at a speech at the National Rifle Association convention on Friday, suggesting that Warren may end up as a Democratic candidate for president in 2020.
PRICELESS: Trump just called phony Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas. That’s exactly what she deserves for faking Native American ancestry.? pic.twitter.com/qOQqKBjX9s
— Tennessee (@TEN_GOP) April 28, 2017
Tapper reported on Trump’s jab by referring to his use of the term as an “ethnic slur.”
President Trump revives “Pocahontas” jab against Elizabeth Warren during NRA speech https://t.co/BP158lFLWs https://t.co/fd2tnr8tl0
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 28, 2017
Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, not surprisingly, appeared to agree with Tapper.
Trump calling Warren Pocahontas is racist. We kind of gloss over it at this point. But this is the president being racist.
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) April 28, 2017
But if Democrats continue to champion Warren and eventually consider her for a presidential run, they will have to stop giving her a pass on her past.
@samsteinhp Isn’t Warren the one undisputedly text book guilty of the left’s capital crime of cultural appropriation here? This tweet is amazingly dense
— Dylan Gallimore (@DylanGallimore) April 28, 2017
@jaketapper @RobProvince The fact is she lied. Some are more offended by her getting called out for the lie than the lie itself.
— Stephanie (@Wrknpoor01) April 29, 2017
@redsteeze I’ve been waiting patiently since 2012 for the rest of the US to catch on to her big lie. She never answered for it. It’s not going away.
— Mary Elizabeth R. (@merbac) April 29, 2017
Warren did not respond when HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher joked with her in an interview Friday, telling the senator “They don’t like you, Pocahontas.”
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