MSNBC’s Craig Melvin (pictured above right) on Monday mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) newly released DNA test results, which revealed the progressive senator has, at the very most, one-64th Native American heritage, as Breitbart reported.

“Did [Elizabeth Warren] gain anything by putting out this DNA test result?” Melvin asked Boston Globe chief national correspondent Annie Linskey, who authored that publication’s coverage of Warren’s DNA test results.

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“Best I can gather, according to your paper’s reporting, she’s one-1,000th or something like that; I think I might be just as Native American as she is.”

Linskey’s article was subject to several corrections throughout the day on Monday, in a strain to get the math percentages right regarding how much Native American ancestry Warren might actually have. She tried to explain to Melvin what the possible benefits of the test results might be.

“The report that was released, that she released yesterday to The Boston Globe, said that she has a Native American ancestor, who was somewhere between 10 and six generations back in her family,” Linskey answered Melvin. “That’s going pretty far back. I don’t know who my great, great, great, great grandmother or grandfather is.”

She continued, “But, at the same time, it provides the first actual documentary proof of this thing she has been saying, which is she had Native American, you know, stories of Native American lore in her family.”

Linskey added, “Up until now, looking at birth certificates, looking at marriage certificates, looking at Indian rolls, you’ve just seen nothing.”

She concluded, “This is the very first time there is some evidence, that look, hey, somebody in the family probably was Native American, indeed was, way, way back. You see perhaps where the stories came from.”

Conservatives had plenty of fun Monday lampooning the fumbled moment from Warren.

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Conservative singer Kaya Jones — who actually is part Native American — questioned the Warren results on Twitter when they were first released.

“Wait … @SenWarren hasn’t given us the numbers or shown us the breakdown of her DNA & you all are believing & praising her? I am Native & provided proof & have been attacked repeatedly for it. Yeah we would like to see more than just a paper saying you have Native evidence #PROOF,” she wrote.

“I guess Elizabeth Warren is saying that her claim to be Native American is only 99.9 percent false,” wrote “Death of a Nation” filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza.

The filmmaker also said, “I suspect that, given the criteria being used by Elizabeth Warren, that @realDonaldTrump has more American Indian ancestry than she does.”

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