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In reply to the discussion: Trump calls Elizabeth Warren, "Pocahontas". [View all]Corporate666
(587 posts)...telling the truth, but there are some pretty damning facts to the contrary.
She never used the indian ancestry until it benefited her in the job marketplace. Furthermore, when she was confronted with her claims, she retracted them and rescinded them. And lastly, nobody whatsoever has been able to corroborate anything she has said.
Nobody can prove she knowingly lied because nobody can prove what "stories" she was supposedly told as a child. But that's really no different than anyone else caught red-handed claiming they "don't remember" details of what they did wrong. It's a get-out-of-jail-free card because you can never prove what someone remembers or doesn't remember. But she intentionally leveraged this falsehood for personal gain - and that is irrefutable.
As for documentation, she claimed to be 1/32 cherokee (IIRC). People have gone through her family tree and confirmed all the people who are within that 1/32 circle are not indian. It's not just looking at birth certificates, it's corroborating it with indian records and lots of other data - all of it proved she has no indian whatsoever in her. She lied.