for president of the united states of america. even before senator elizabeth warren began her speech launching her presidential bid the trump campaign was on the attack releasing a statement accusing elizabeth warren of being a fraud over her past claims of native american ancestry for which she has apologized. then just a few hours later on twitter, donald trump took it to a whole new low once again calling warren pocahontas and saying, see you on the campaign trail all caps liz. an apparent reference to the trail of tears, one of the forced relocation of native americans that killed an estimated 15,000 indigenous people in the 1930s. maria theresa kumar and melissa goldberg with me as well as rebecca nagel of cherokee nation. there was a tweet, continuing
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so they think certainly have the votes. senator john corrine said we have the vote. matter of technical fixes before we head to vote this afternoon. but the hard work, work that s actually going to get this over the finish lines, that s still going on behind the scenes, brooke. we see a packed house in saint charles, missouri. we ll see how the president plans to sell this as all this wheeling and dealing is happening on capitol hill. thank you so much. and we ll take the president as he speaks there next hour. president trump hitting the road after the new york times report that indicates he s still questioning some of these conspiracy theories, right, that the authenticity of former barack obama birth certificate. there was also where he sold senator warren pocahontas. but again this time as he was standing in front of native american war heroes. and those aren t are the only
why does he continue to insult even beyond pocahontas? i don t think it s a racial slur in anyway. and if you call someone who isn t a native-american pocahontas i think that isn t a slur. i think that s called making fun of someone, not a racial slur. we don t know that she is. she s already admitted regardless it s not the forum. it s inappropriate. does anybody realize pocahontas was a real person? she s associated with james town in 1613. she was actually kidnapped by white cologniests. and died of a horrible disease. and died of a horrible disease. there is nothing about that story there is nothing about
warren were sure applause lines on the campaign trail. and pocahontas is not happy. she s the worst. when the insult was repeated in front of navajo code talkers, only silence followed. the democratic senator called it a racial swlur. i think that s a ridiculous response. it s far from the only time the president has crossed racially sensitive lines. when a white supremacist rally ended in bloodshed. he suggested the counter protesters also bore blame. you had some very bad people in that group, you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. as the nfl players protest against police treatment of african-americans evolved. he was quick to demand their firing, tweeting about it