{"id":5277,"date":"2016-08-14T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/14\/trump-spokesperson-reorganizes-u-s-timeline-says-obama-led-invasion-of-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-08-14T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:04:55","slug":"trump-spokesperson-reorganizes-u-s-timeline-says-obama-led-invasion-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/14\/trump-spokesperson-reorganizes-u-s-timeline-says-obama-led-invasion-of-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump spokesperson reorganizes U.S. timeline, says Obama led invasion of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f177194%2fap_233666478454\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/yc8VjbtuJqa3Ogudy1B98C27fs0=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F177194%2FAP_233666478454.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Trump+spokesperson+reorganizes+U.S.+timeline%2C+says+Obama+led+invasion+of+Afghanistan&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F13%2Fdonald-trump-spokesperson-katrina-pierson-afghanistan-obama%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F13%2Fdonald-trump-spokesperson-katrina-pierson-afghanistan-obama%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pierson claimed President Barack Obama led the U.S. into war in Afghanistan in a CNN interview on Saturday, an absurd reorganization of the timeline of that war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/22\/bands-trump-music-republican-convention\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Trump&#8217;s favorite bands really don&#8217;t like Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. in 2001 invaded Afghanistan. Obama became president in 2009. In 2001, Obama was an Illinois state senator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what Pierson was trying to say by bringing Afghanistan into a conversation about the beginnings of the Islamic State, which can be traced to Iraq. In one of the most awkward pieces of television this presidential election has produced, Pierson&#8217;s words are so jumbled it&#8217;s difficult to make out a coherent argument, other than she thinks Obama and Hillary Clinton are bad.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/13\/donald-trump-spokesperson-katrina-pierson-afghanistan-obama\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/iraq\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Iraq<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/islamic-state\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Islamic State<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/isis\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Isis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/afghanistan\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Afghanistan<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/spokesperson\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Spokesperson<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/vx4wrxN5Vkw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 Pierson claimed President Barack Obama led the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/14\/trump-spokesperson-reorganizes-u-s-timeline-says-obama-led-invasion-of-afghanistan\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1232,3620,966,1024,4013],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-afghanistan","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-spokesperson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}