Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tumbled on the Senate floor on Thursday after a desk she leaned on toppled under her weight.

Warren fell awkwardly backwards to sit on one of the Senate’s tiered platforms before being helped back to her feet. The fall appeared to cause quite a commotion, as over half a dozen senators rushed to help Warren after she fell.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was the first to reach Warren’s side. Warren appeared to give him a few pats of appreciation for his assistance. Warren appears to be unharmed.

🚨WATCH: Elizabeth Warren FELL DOWN on the Senate floor and knocked over a table. pic.twitter.com/1vF9hOlsLO

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Video of the fall quickly went viral online as users poked fun at Warren’s ungraceful display.

“This puts the Tip in Tippecanoe. (I’ll see myself out),” conservative sports commentator Clay Travis posted, a veiled reference to Warren’s past claims of Native American heritage.

Dave Rubin, host of “The Rubin Report,” posted that “Warren’s Indian name was Falls On A**.”

“Looks like Senator Warren has been hitting the peace pipe,” another user posted.

Warren’s claims to Native American ancestry trace back decades and she has faced criticism for using a thin genetic connection to Native Americans to identify as a Native American on applications. For instance, in 1986, Warren identified as a Native American on her registration card for the State Bar of Texas.

Seeking to tamp down criticism of her heritage claims in 2018, Warren released a blood test that said she had a Native American ancestor between six and 10 generations back. That would make Warren anywhere between 1/64th and 1/1,024 Native American.

Warren’s use of the blood test to silence her critics earned her a rebuke from the Cherokee Nation, of which Warren claimed to be.

The Cherokee Nation’s then-secretary of state, Chuck Hoskin Jr., said that the use of “a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong … dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is [proven].”

Warren later apologized for claiming to be Native American. In a town hall in December 2019, she said she “shouldn’t have done it. I am not a person of color; I am not a citizen of a tribe; and I have apologized for confusion I’ve caused on tribal citizenship, tribal sovereignty, and for any harm that I’ve caused.”

Documents that indicate Hillary Clinton approved a Russia collusion hoax against her rival Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign were “buried in a back room,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on Thursday.

He made the comment after the release of a newly declassified annex from former Special Counsel John Durham that discussed how the Obama-era FBI appeared to ignore intelligence that indicated Clinton’s campaign, its supporters, or Russian disinformation fueled allegations of ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Moscow in order to distract from the controversy over her unauthorized use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State.

“We uncovered this annex, along with thousands of other documents, buried in a back room at the FBI,” Patel said in a post on X. “It revealed a highly classified piece of the Durham report: evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and fabricate the Russia collusion hoax. We worked with Chairman Grassley and declassified the documents immediately. And now the American people can see the truth for themselves. The Russia hoax was a disgrace that President Trump and our country should’ve never been put through.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a lead Russia-gate investigator who pushed for the declassification of the annex, released the document on Thursday.

“This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions and is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history,” Grassley said in a statement. “The new Trump administration has a tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and do so with maximum speed and transparency.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi has already initiated a new “strike force” tasked with evaluating the evidence relating the Obama administration’s efforts to drive the Russia collusion allegations in response to various documents the Trump administration has been releasing to the public, such as findings that allegedly show officials in the Obama administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence regarding Russia to undermine Trump.

The declassified annex, which still contains some redactions, spoke of how the FBI received information detailing a plan that Clinton purportedly approved to use firms to spread disinformation through media, expecting the bureau to “put more oil into the fire” and distract from her email scandal. Durham also wrote how it seemed the FBI “dismissed” the intelligence as “not credible without any investigative steps actually having been taken to either corroborate or disprove the allegations.”

Former President Barack Obama and top national security veterans from his administration have pushed back on claims there being a “treasonous conspiracy,” but the Trump administration has pledged to keep on digging into the matter.

“This should be a step toward justice,” Patel said in his post on X. “There will be more to come. Your FBI will keep being relentless to get the truth out. We’re thankful for federal partners [at the Justice Department, CIA] and more. And thank you [Grassley] for your tireless investigative work.”