When asked on CNN about Trump saying Obama was the “founder” of Islamic State, spokeswoman Katrina Pierson delivered a lengthy response in which she proclaimed it was Obama who “went into Afghanistan”, where USA troops had begun fighting in 2001 under former President George W. Bush.
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“Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan’s death in 2004?“, Mediaite asks today in reporting Pierson’s false accusation. “Barack Obama went into Afghanistan creating another problem”.
“That is the reason why ISIS is a global issue”.
Pierson doubled down: “That was Obama’s war, yes”.
Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson either has little grasp on recent United States history, believes Americans are stupid, or simply hopes no one will call her out on being a blatant bullsh*tter. President Bush invaded Afghanistan in 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks. “And Obama made ramping up USA presence there a central plank of his foreign policy platform during his campaign to be president”.
During the earlier snafu, Pierson also claimed that Hillary Clinton was Obama’s co-director in charge of the entire war effort.
She later took to Twitter and clarified her remarks.
Pierson’s comments come just as the Trump campaign continues to weather criticism for its candidate’s claim that the president, along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “founded” ISIS. “And after 2007, al-Qaeda was essentially in ashes”, she said.
“I thought we were talking about the founding of ISIS”, Pierson said.
“So let me tell you, I’m sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me and you could hardly hear what he was saying but what I heard was ‘various groups, ‘” Trump said.
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“It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life”, Pierson said.
