Donald Trump is still calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’
President Trump apparently hasn’t tired of calling Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas.”
It’s a jab meant to reference Warren’s claimed Cherokee lineage, something that has not been proven.
According to Politico, Trump referred to Warren as “Pocahontas” several times during a Thursday lunch with some senators, at which Warren’s recent objection to the confirmation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was discussed. During that confirmation debate this week, Warren was silenced after being found in violation of Senate rules for reading a letter by Coretta Scott King that said Sessions had used the “power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.”
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