Faced with news that Sen. Elizabeth Warren took a DNA test and, yes, has some Native American ancestry, Donald Trump is in the denial stage. As in, he’s denying anything and everything he ever said about Warren’s background while he thinks up his next attack.
When reporters asked Trump what he thought about Warren’s DNA result, he said “Who cares. Who cares.” Well, dude, you did until she produced it, as evidenced by the fact that you talked about it all the time. This marks the second time a Democrat has dunked on Trump with proof of their birth/ancestry, come to think of it—a milestone only possible because of his obsession with racial and national purity.
But what about Trump’s offer that “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”? He’s denying ever having said it: “I didn’t say that. You better read it again.” Okay … “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.” Is Trump’s defense going to be that that is a thing he said he was going to say on the presidential debate stage, so it doesn’t count until he gets to say it then and there? Weak, if so—but then, he doesn’t have any non-weak options. He said it. She did it. He has a long history of not giving the money to charity he got public attention for saying he would.
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway also joined the effort to wave off Warren’s DNA results—results Trump had specifically called for and on which he’s repeatedly speculated—as meaningless. Warren didn’t just go to 23andMe or AncestryDNA. She went to a Stanford professor who’s won a MacArthur genius grant. But to Conway, it’s “junk science.”
Trump has been far too invested in attacking Warren as “Pocahontas” to just let it drop. But it will be interesting, in the most disgusting way, to see which direction he takes his attack response once he regains his balance and gets past pretending it’s all irrelevant.
GOTV! Even if you don't live in a battleground district, you can sign up to write letters to unlikely voters who do.
Double your impact: Can you give $3 to help elect Democrats to the Senate in Nevada and Texas?