Elizabeth Warren knows her false claims of Native American ancestry are going to come back to haunt her if she decides to run for president in 2020. So she’s using her allies in media to put the story to bed.
The Washington Times reports:
Elizabeth Warren mounts PR blitz insisting Cherokee claims never helped her career
Sen. Elizabeth Warren launched a public relations blitz over the weekend aimed at proving her claims of Cherokee ancestry had no impact on her high-flying Ivy League career, but not everyone was convinced.
The Massachusetts Democrat, whose possible 2020 presidential run has been dogged by her unproven assertions of minority status as a law professor, released Sunday through her Senate campaign 10 personnel documents from five universities, including Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
The document drop came a day after the Boston Globe ran an extensive article that included interviews with Ms. Warren; her husband, Harvard Law School professor Bruce Mann; and 31 Harvard faculty involved with deciding whether to offer her a full-time post in 1993.
“You have what I have,” Ms. Warren told the Globe, referring to the files from her career as a law school professor. “My family is my family, but my background played no role in my getting hired anywhere.”
The Globe agreed, concluding that “at every step of her remarkable rise in the legal profession, the people responsible for hiring her saw her as a white woman,” but others were skeptical.
Conservative law professor William Jacobson, who own the Legal Insurrection blog, is an expert on Warren’s claims and sees through the media backed campaign:
During Warren's time as Visiting Prof the Harvard Women's Law Journal listed her as a Woman of Color in Legal Academia — so students knew she claimed to be minority, https://t.co/t7k1rCFJ5z
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 3, 2018
If being Native American was so central to Warren's family history, why did she stop listing herself as a minority in the law prof directory after she got tenure at Harvard?
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 3, 2018
Remember, when first confronted about Harvard touting her as Native American, Elizabeth Warren told reporters she didn't know why Harvard did that https://t.co/ZvNNk0sELk
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 3, 2018
There still is no evidence that Elizabeth Warren has any Native American ancestry, and she certainly didn't and doesn't meet the EEOC and Harvard definitions which require both ancestry AND cultural affiliation with tribes https://t.co/hmseaSEgHO
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 3, 2018
She won’t be able to bury this issue. If she runs, it is going to come up.
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