As Twitchy has reported, earlier today, President Trump again referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas,” this time at a White House event honoring Native American code talkers. The White House said the name applied to Warren isn’t a racial slur. CNN’s Jim Acosta decided to do a fact check on that:
Trump, at event with Navajo Code Talkers at WH, makes "Pocahontas" crack about Senator Warren. There was silence in the room. Per pool.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 27, 2017
WH press sec says "Pocahontas" is not a racial slur. (Fact check: it is.) https://t.co/tRW5H7ILcn
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 27, 2017
Would the MSM care to do a careful fact check of the reason Trump refers to Warren by using that name?
Rather than acknowledge Warren lied about her heritage and benefited from those lies, Acosta is claiming Trump is making a racial slur? Huh? https://t.co/v09dzNOJ74
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 27, 2017
Fact check: She's white.
Code Talkers probably aren't big fans of white people using their ethnicity for personal gain either.
— Anti-Hipster (@corrcomm) November 27, 2017
It *may* have been a racial slur if Sen. Warren was, in fact, an American Indian.
(Fact check: She isn't.) https://t.co/LBfv3HHStO
— Greg Cougar (@NonLiberalPAer) November 27, 2017
Fact check: it's not. https://t.co/1xPXe386jW
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 27, 2017
What's worse making fun of someone's lie or the lie itself? https://t.co/DvP8S5I1gl
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) November 27, 2017
What’s the societal penalty for faking minority heritage and taking opportunity away from real minorities?
— DLove (@thdarius) November 27, 2017
A white woman claiming to be Cherokee is not only a racial slur against the Cherokee nation but it is BLATANT cultural appropriation. Get your PC straight, @Acosta ! https://t.co/KaWibrSvWL
— ?? Hillary has Kuru (@BethelLorri) November 27, 2017
Elizabeth Warren claimed to be Native American. (Fact check: She isn't.) https://t.co/NNIMgqoL9D
— Jim Treacher is a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) November 27, 2017
That’s a follow-up “fact check” that won’t be seen from many in the MSM.
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