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In what was supposed to be a rebuke of President Trump’s ridicule, only served to draw more laughs from most and scorn from others. In an overly dramatized campaign video out Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) released the results of a DNA test that suggested she did have a Native American ancestor. The catch? It’s possible she was only 1/1024 Native American. Despite that fact, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) promoted her campaign message and portrayed her as the victor.
On NBC Nightly News, they were eager to prove that it was somehow a terrible day to be President Trump. “Now to Senator Elizabeth Warren doing something unprecedented after years of ridicule from President Trump and Republicans over her claims of Native American ancestry,” declared anchor Lester Holt.
NBC White House correspondent touted how Warren supposedly “calling his bluff” with her announcement. “Warren firing back, tweeting President Trump is attacking her because he's scared, as she looks ahead to her next political chapter,” Welker gushed after spending her entire report making it sound as though Trump was on the defensive.
Besides bringing back the ridiculous claim that calling Senator Warren “Pocahontas” was a “racial slur”, ABC kept harping on a bet Trump made at a rally for her to prove her heritage. “President Trump, who calls her ‘Pocahontas’, has suggested he would pay $1 million to a charity if she took a DNA test to prove her heritage. Tonight, she says it’s time to pay up,” proclaimed sensationalist anchor David Muir during World News Tonight.
What went unreported by the networks was the fun statistic that showed that since Warren could have between 1/64 and 1/1024 Native American DNA, it meant her mix could be below average for White people. According to a New York Times report form 2014, “The researchers found that European-Americans had genomes that were on average 98.6 percent European, .19 percent African, and .18 Native American.” Warren had as low as .098 percent Native American DNA or about half the average.
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