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Donald Trump’s DNA Attack on Elizabeth Warren is the Beginning of Genetic McCarthyism
The Daily Beast ^ | July 7, 2018 | James D. Walsh

Posted on 07/08/2018 3:27:35 PM PDT by EdnaMode

The era of Maury-Povich politics is officially upon us, after President Donald Trump suggested at a rally in Montana last week that Senator Elizabeth Warren be subjected to a DNA test.

“I shouldn’t tell you ’cause I like not to give away secrets… Let’s say I’m debating Pocahontas,” the president said, reviving his favorite racist nickname for the senator. “You know those little kits they sell on television for $2…I’m gonna get one of those little kits and in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she’s of Indian heritage, because her mother says she has high cheekbones…we will take that little kit…but we have to do it gently, because we are in the Me Too generation… I will give you $1 million to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian…I have a feeling she will say no.”

Trump isn’t the first to recommend that Warren take such a test. “All the senator needs to do is spit into a tube, wait a few weeks and get her answer,” the Berkshire Eagle’s editorial board wrote in March. But now the president is daring a potential 2020 challenger take a DNA test. Once again, Trump is setting a dangerous precedent.

Shortly after the 2008 presidential election, the New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective titled “The Genetic Privacy of Presidential Candidates,” which warned politicians running for office about a threat it called “genetic McCarthyism.” Because genetic information is so easily misinterpreted and misrepresented, the authors argued, presidential campaigns should resist calls to release candidates’ genomic information and pledge not to attempt to obtain or release the genomic information of their opponents.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: dna; dnatest; elizabethwarren; fakenews; fauxcahontas; geneticmccarthyism; lizwarren; mccarthyism; mediabias; trump; warren
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To: EdnaMode

Democrats lie, no big deal. Republicans call them out, it’s hate. Business as usual. The problem is most Republicans still play by those rules. Trump doesn’t.


61 posted on 07/08/2018 4:10:07 PM PDT by robel
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To: EdnaMode

He offered her a million bucks. I don’t remember McCarthy doing that.


62 posted on 07/08/2018 4:10:27 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: EdnaMode
Donald Trump’s DNA Attack on Elizabeth Warren is the Beginning of Genetic McCarthyism

Bull Feathers! It is making fun of two things:

1) She LIED to get ahead.
2) That lying about one's ancestry is a way to get ahead.

Trump and the rest of us are criticizing the LYING and RACISM of the Left, and no amount of fantasy projection is going to change that.

63 posted on 07/08/2018 4:24:20 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: EdnaMode
Doesn't the daily beast care about native american children- the real ones??

Would the daily beast care that a white person could have potentially pretended to be a native american and appropriated the benefits meant for a native american child??

Don't the democrats-progressives-liberals-socialists care to find the truth about whether real native americans were conned out of benefits, by a privileged white democrat senator?

64 posted on 07/08/2018 4:28:02 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: cranked

Shout it out through your MAGAphone!


65 posted on 07/08/2018 4:28:53 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: windsorknot

Yeah they are certainly creative.


66 posted on 07/08/2018 4:32:14 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: PresidentFelon

Exactly!


67 posted on 07/08/2018 4:38:43 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: newfreep

OUR HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


68 posted on 07/08/2018 4:40:35 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
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To: Robert357

So why can only Democrats play the race card?

They use it because it has worked well for decades. But now that Trump is dishing it back to them unfiltered in speeches and on twitter, we’re about to see the race card backfire on the Dems.


69 posted on 07/08/2018 4:41:16 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: Moonman62

It isn’t.


70 posted on 07/08/2018 4:41:28 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode
Either Warren knew that she had no American Indian ancestry, or she knew that she did not know. If the latter, she had an ethical obligation to verify her claimed ancestry before using it to greatly increase her chances of being hired by a string of universities, including Harvard.

We know that she did not verify her ancestry by using DNA, public records, tribal records, or using any other credible resources. Had she done so, she would have made that proof public.

So, we know that she lied. She claimed an ancestry that she had not verified. Her lie paid off, probably beyond her dreams. It must have earned her millions of dollars.

A future DNA test cannot change any of the above.

71 posted on 07/08/2018 4:45:10 PM PDT by TChad
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To: EdnaMode

Nope, just calling only her out on her false claim.


72 posted on 07/08/2018 4:46:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode
I plan to point out to the next Liberal I encounter who makes a disparaging remark about Donald Trump that if he was a Democrat, with a growing economy, peace negotiations on the Korean Peninsula, and tariffs in place to protect American workers, all his past moral indiscretions and bombastic rhetoric, and take-no-prisoners attitude toward opponents, would make them giddy with joy. They'd be insufferable (not that they're sufferable now) in defending him, since unlike with Obama they wouldn't have to fabricate facts and reflexively play the Race Card.

If they're capable of imagining such a scenario there's a chance, albeit tiny, of a shift in their attitude. Not holding my breath on it, but it's about the only way I think I can possibly make a dent while remaining civil with them myself. Then, if they continue to rant and get in my face, the uncivil consequences will be on their heads.

73 posted on 07/08/2018 5:00:10 PM PDT by katana
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

“If you want to lie about your genetics for political gain, expect to be called out on it. Simple.”

Exactly.


74 posted on 07/08/2018 5:23:01 PM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: EdnaMode

Something tells me Pocahontas has already taken a test and knows the results.


75 posted on 07/08/2018 5:23:46 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: EdnaMode

Card carrying communist got to stick together

Meanwhile the black listing of anyone who ever supported Trump is OK with these neofascist liberals


76 posted on 07/08/2018 5:24:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Stalinists lie. Always

Was it a lie when Obama told people he wasn’t born in America or a lie when later said he was?

Was it a lie when Barack Obama claimed to be a Christian of 20 years under former muslim Jeremiah Wright?


77 posted on 07/08/2018 5:26:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: EdnaMode

This is wild-ass hysteria posing a journalism. There should be a warning label that it was written by a psychopath.


78 posted on 07/08/2018 5:27:57 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: EdnaMode

No, it’s just another example of Alinskyism.


79 posted on 07/08/2018 5:29:46 PM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: PhiloBedo

More likely a relative. That way her name isn’t in the database.


80 posted on 07/08/2018 5:40:28 PM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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