Fraud is the utterance of a falsehood for personal gain.
She claimed to "have Cherokee blood," which she knew at the time was bullshit, in order to claim a place in the hierarchy of oppression. This place as a "woman of color" got her notoriety, substance, and a seat at the table - which she would. have lacked as just another privileged, middle-class white woman.
Her publication of the ridiculous, compromised, far-fetched DNA results was a blatant attempt to re-secure that place on the oppression hierarchy, which blew up in her face.
Had she "been a man" about it, and admitted that she had taken a piece of "family lore" and run with it, only to find that it had no basis in fact, she would have been better off politically. But she was determined not to be upstaged by K. Harris and C. Booker, who were getting gobs of face time in the Kavanaugh hearings, and brought out her last "Hail Mary" to salvage her oppressed bona fides.
Like it or not, she vindicated Trump's ridicule, and NOBODY is buying the ridiculous meme that Trump's mockery is "racism."
She claimed to "have Cherokee blood," which she knew at the time was bullshit, in order to claim a place in the hierarchy of oppression. This place as a "woman of color" got her notoriety, substance, and a seat at the table - which she would. have lacked as just another privileged, middle-class white woman.
Her publication of the ridiculous, compromised, far-fetched DNA results was a blatant attempt to re-secure that place on the oppression hierarchy, which blew up in her face.
Had she "been a man" about it, and admitted that she had taken a piece of "family lore" and run with it, only to find that it had no basis in fact, she would have been better off politically. But she was determined not to be upstaged by K. Harris and C. Booker, who were getting gobs of face time in the Kavanaugh hearings, and brought out her last "Hail Mary" to salvage her oppressed bona fides.
Like it or not, she vindicated Trump's ridicule, and NOBODY is buying the ridiculous meme that Trump's mockery is "racism."