Whoa, there, Pocahontas!

Washington Post: Warren listed race as 'American Indian' on Texas bar registration

Wow. She's only a little more than 1/1 millionth Indian by her own DNA test, and she's as close to culturally Indian or tribally integrated as Trump, so this is about a seven foot Pinocchio.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren listed her race as "American Indian" on a State Bar of Texas registration card in 1986, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The Post's reporting represents a previously unknown instance of Warren claiming her race as Native American and the first document that appears to definitively show Warren making the claim in her own handwriting. 

According to the Post, Warren has previously declined to answer whether she or an assistant filled out forms in which her race was listed as Native American.

MSNBC showed a picture of the card, filled out in her own hand.

Hilarity for all!

OK, do we still believe her denials she ever sought professional advancement by making this claim?

She should just drop out.

Elizabeth Warren planned fanfare, but instead she’s getting panned

Elizabeth Warren planned to spend the week gearing up for a “big announcement,” in her home state of Massachusetts followed by a ceremonial tour of Iowa.

Instead, she has been overwhelmed yet again with criticism about her claims of Native American heritage. 

It is the latest in a series of unforced errors that have destabilized Warren, as she attempts to roll out one of the most highly anticipated presidential campaigns in a competitive Democratic field.

The Washington Post report Tuesday that Warren had identified herself as “American Indian” on a 1986 State Bar of Texas registration card prompted Warren to repeat and clarify an apology that landed with a thud earlier this week.

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ABC’s Rick Klein pointed out Trump’s goading is far worse than any of Warren’s alleged misdeeds. 

Her problem, he said, is rather that she is struggling to define herself at a time when Democrats are demanding authenticity.

“For a candidate who’s not even technically a candidate yet, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has done a whole lot of battling with herself,” ABC’s Rick Klein opined.

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In short, Warren is not exactly controlling her own narrative.

Warren still has almost a year to make up for the gaffes before the Iowa caucuses. But high-profile competitors with similar name recognition like Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are entering the race every day.

None of them have started out with an apology tour.

And there is more in the story at Fox News.

She's been a fraud for a long time, it seems.

The revelation, initially reported by The Washington Post, is the first known instance of Warren claiming Native American ancestry in an official document or in her own handwriting. 

It threatened to add more ammunition to already-frequent attacks by Republicans, including President Trump, deriding Warren for claiming such ancestry to bolster her academic career.

Warren's office, questioned by The Post, did not dispute the authenticity of the bar card.

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Republicans characterized Warren's apologies as politically motivated and insincere.

“For the seven years this has been in the news, Elizabeth Warren has refused to apologize. Now, four days before her formal presidential launch, she’s issued a politically opportunistic apology that doesn’t go nearly far enough," Republican National Committee (RNC) spokesman Mike Reed said in a statement, referring to Warren's plan to formally begin her campaign for the White House on Saturday. 

"Warren pretended to be a minority to climb the Ivy League ladder – a lie that will continue to haunt her presidential ambitions.”

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The State Bar document, which functions as a kind of directory entry for lawyers, is among multiple instances in which Warren described herself as a Native American. 

She indicated that she was Cherokee in an Oklahoma cookbook called " Pow Wow Chow" in 1984, and listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools Directory of Faculty from 1986 to 1995 -- a move she said later was an effort to "connect" with other “people like me."

Warren dropped off the list in 1995, after moving to Harvard Law School. 

But in 1996, an article in the student-run Harvard Crimson apparently indicated that faculty members and administrators still believed Warren was Native American.

"Although the conventional wisdom among students and faculty is that the Law School faculty includes no minority women, Chmura said Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren is Native American," the article stated, referring to Harvard spokesman Mike Chmura.

And a 2005 document obtained by The Hill indicated that the University of Pennsylvania Law School considered Warren among its past minority faculty members.

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On Tuesday, filings revealed that Warren is worth more than $4 million -- complicating her effort to appeal to working-class voters with proposals like an unprecedented tax on wealth. 

in [sic] January, Warren proposed an unprecedented tax of 2 percent annually on all assets belonging to households worth more than $50 million, as well as a 1 percent tax on households with $1 billion or more.

Critics have charged that the idea is both dangerous and unconstitutional because it directly taxes wealth that is not transferred, invested, or earned as income, without ensuring the tax is evenly distributed across states.

That had not occurred to me.