Elizabeth Warren’s Pocahontas Pickle

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Elizabeth Warren’s Pocahontas Pickle
If she decides to challenge President Trump in 2020, Warren will have to relitigate a controversy that first ignited in 2012.
US News & World Report, Nov 28, 2017, David Catanese

When President Donald Trump casually invoked "Pocahontas" during a ceremony honoring Native Americans on Monday, Washington's political class swiftly went into its familiar and usually unfulfilling ritual of trying to decipher his deeper intentions.

Was he attempting to purposefully distract media coverage away from the White House's skirmish with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Was he simply reaching for cheap levity among a group he was largely unfamiliar with?

Or did he view it as an irresistible opportunity to strike at a reoccurring political nemesis who he views as a gathering threat to his re-election prospects in 2020?


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