U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) — a far-left radical who received a preemptive pardon from former President Biden for his work on the House January 6 Committee — wants President Trump to be censured for referring to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as “Pocahontas” during last week’s address to Congress.
Trump has long mocked Warren with the taunt due to the Native American heritage scandal that has long plagued her political career.
The once aspiring presidential candidate for years touted her alleged Native American heritage and claimed she has Cherokee ancestry, only for these claims to be thoroughly disproven through a DNA test.
Warren formally apologized to the Cherokee Nation in 2019, though she has been accused of leveraging her fake heritage to gain favorable admissions status for law school.
From 1995 to 2004, her employer, Harvard Law School, listed her as a Native American in its federal affirmative action forms, though the university has denied that it played any role.
As a result of the scandal, Trump has long referred to Warren as “Pocahontas” and repeated the dig during last week’s address. While Trump has often repeated the joke while speaking to Native Americans — none of whom have ever raised an issue — Rep. Raskin is accusing Trump of using a racial slur and wants him to be censured.
The topic came up when Raskin was asked about the behavior of his colleagues during the address, many of whom walked out or held up anti-Trump signs throughout.
“It’s a fair criticism you know, we’ve stayed overwhelmingly unified through this. I think it is a valid critique that we did not have one single strategic plan going into the Donald Trump’s address on that night,” the congressman told MSNBC, adding that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) protested former President Biden’s State of the Union address.
“Of course, Biden dealt with that like a man and just responded to it. Donald Trump couldn’t handle it because he doesn’t have the verbal dexterity to respond, and so they had to have Al Green removed,” he continued, providing a whitewashed analysis of his colleague’s outburst.
“Al Green was making a very strong, valid, substantive point, which is there is no mandate to destroy Medicaid. The vast majority of Democrats rejected the idea of censuring him. And really, if we were censuring anybody, it should have been Donald Trump, who I don’t think had been back to our chamber since he incited a violent insurrection against us,” the congressman ranted.
“And then he used his pulpit in order to call a sitting member of the United States Senate Pocahontas. So I think a racial and ethnic slur from the president was a far greater insult to the dignity and decorum of our chamber.”
