Bessent taunts Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren with cheeky clapback: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has some slings and arrows for “Pocahontas.”Bessent on Saturday sent a handwritten note to lefty Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wishing her a “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day” — a cheeky jab at her past claims at being of Native American descent.“Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day in advance to you and your family,” he said, according to Fox Business Network.His note also was a dig at Warren’s prolific letter-writing, which has included 100 letters sent to Bessent alone since the start of the second Trump administration, according to his team.Warren fired off her latest missive to him Oct.

10 demanding answers on what the Treasury Department has been doing to slash borrowing costs for the public.“Senator Warren loves to write letters,” Bessent told “Fox and Friends” on Sunday.“More than writing the letters, she loves to leak them to the press.

That I read about the letter on Bloomberg and Politico before we receive it, and a lot of these letters are embarrassing.“[She’s] economically illiterate,” he said.“I can’t remember whether it was one, two, three, four letters ago she confused a currency swap with a currency intervention.

Then she accused us of doing a bond market intervention.We’ve been doing it since 2024.“The shocking thing here is that she is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, and she is on Senate Finance.”Warren, an arch-progressive, has faced criticisms over her past claims of being of Native American heritage when genetic testing showed she has a barely a fraction of a link.In 1984, she authored a Native American cookbook and identified as Cherokee.

She also identified herself as “Native American” in a State Bar of Texas survey two years later.Harvard Law School, her employer at the time, described her as Native American on federal paperwork between 1995 and 2004, too.Stanford University professor Carlos Bustamante found that she possessed a N...