Thank you CNN for the spin!

 https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/elizabeth-warren-native-american/index.html

Thank you CNN for the spin! Even though Elizabeth Warren has lied about her heritage at least she never received any sort of “advantage” or “gained professionally” from her lie. Just to be clear, CNN is saying, there are advantages to gain from being a Native American? Why did the Cherokee Nation get angry when Warren used scientific, DNA evidence to prove her blood line?

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Elizabeth Warren has struggled to get from under the muddled – and occasionally contradictory – story she has told about her own belief in her Native American heritage, and whether she ever either claimed that background on documents or received any sort of advantage from it.

On Tuesday, Warren’s claims took a major hit: The Washington Post reported on a Texas bar registration card from 1986 in which, clearly and apparently in her own hand, the Massachusetts Democrat had written “American Indian” when asked to identify her race.

A richly reported Boston Globe investigation concluded that Warren was correct in her claim that she had never gained professionally from being listed as a Native American.

a DNA test that suggested she might have had Native American ancestors six to 10 generations ago.

Not only was that something short of foolproof evidence, but it also angered the Cherokee Nation, which argued that defining ethnicity via DNA and bloodlines was a dicey proposition.

What we now know is that Warren actively identified as a Native American as far back as 1986. This was not some mix-up or misunderstanding or someone who worked for Warren making a mistake. This was Warren’s doing.

That still doesn’t mean that she gained anything from her decision to call herself a Native American on some documents. The bar registration card is a simple formality, not the sort of thing that would somehow benefit Warren in some material way.

Given that Donald Trump is President of the United States, nothing is impossible in politics. So Warren could somehow put all of this behind her, somehow, and be the nominee.

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