Elizabeth Warren's Credibility Problem

Warren had repeatedly claimed that when she was a grade-school
teacher in the early 1970s, the principal fired her for being "visibly
pregnant." The Free Beacon went back and reviewed the county records, and
they appear to contradict Warren's claim. Minutes from an April 1971 Riverdale
Board of Education meeting show that the board voted unanimously to
extend Warren a 2nd-year contract. Two months later, the minutes from another
board meeting indicated that Warren's resignation was "accepted with regret."
Warren is also on tape telling a different version of the
events. In 2007 in an interview with the Institute of International Studies,
Warren recalled: "I worked in a public school system with the children
with disabilities. I did that for a year, and then that summer I didn't have
the education courses, so I was on an "emergency certificate," it was
called. I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in
education and said, "I don't think this is going to work out for me."
I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple
of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, "What am I going to
do?" My husband's view of it was, "Stay home. We have children, we'll
have more children, you'll love this." And I was very restless about it."
It is plausible that Warren's latest account of her time as a
public school teacher is the accurate version of this story. However, the seeds
of doubt are there.
The questioning of Warren's story as a public-school
teacher undisputedly ties into her past claims (now undeniably false claims) of
Native American ancestry. Warren's well-publicized DNA test showed her to
possibly be 0.097% Native American and that she may have had a Native American ancestor
6 to 10 generations ago. Warren embarrassingly thought this DNA test proved her
ancestry, but it didn't. What it did show was that Warren made a series of
impossible claims about her backstory that she had to have known were
impossible. The first during an interview in her 2012 senate
campaign, where she claimed to have had "photographic evidence"
proving her Native American ancestry. Elizabeth Warren is not Native American
and, therefore, cannot have photographic evidence. The one ancestor she may
have had lived nearly 200 years before the first photograph was ever taken. The
second impossible claim that Warren made about her Native American ancestry was
that her parents had eloped because her mom was Native American. Again, this is
impossible since her mom was not Native American. Lastly, Elizabeth Warren, along with her husband, contributed to a
published Cherokee cookbook where they both claimed to be Cherokee. This is the
only instance in which Warren's husband claimed to be Native American. A claim
they both undoubtedly knew was false. Warren pushed this false narrative to such a point that Harvard
publicly referred to her as the "first woman of color" tenured (again, she
is 99.90% Caucasian).
Warren's supporters want to dismiss these inconsistencies as
baseless smears and maybe they are. After all, maybe Warren's ancestry claims can be forgiven and
dismissed as a naive belief in false family "lore." It is entirely
possible, perhaps even probable, that Warren's latest version of her
termination as a public school teacher is the accurate version. But these questions are not
going away and need to be addressed head-on. Whether Warren and her supporters
like it, these inconsistencies are creating a credibility problem for Warren.
Donald Trump runs his campaigns on liberal hypocrisy and Warren's credibility
problem needs to be litigated now in the Democratic primary. There is no hiding from it. We need to be sure
we are not nominating another candidate with dangerous liabilities.
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