Trump spokesperson blames Obama, Clinton for soldier’s 2004 death
But US president, Democratic nominee were senators when US Army Capt. Humayun Khan was killed in Iraq
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A spokeswoman for Donald Trump has blamed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 killing of US Army Capt. Humayun Khan in Iraq — even though the death occurred more than four years before Obama became president.
Trump has been in a public fight with Khan’s parents after Khan’s father criticized the Republican nominee at last week’s Democratic convention.
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Tuesday evening, Katrina Pierson said, “It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagements that probably cost his life.”
Obama was a state senator in Illinois in 2004. Clinton was a senator representing New York. She voted in favor of the Iraq War in 2002.
Trump has been widely criticized, including by many Republicans, for denouncing the Khans, who are Muslim-Americans.
Pierson’s comments have become a trending topic under #KatrinaPiersonHistory. She touched on the controversy herself on Twitter by writing that she’ll make history by getting Trump elected president.
Trump on Tuesday slammed Obama, accusing him of “failed leadership” and, together with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, “single-handedly” destabilizing the Middle East.
He accused the pair of putting Iran “on the path to nuclear weapons” and said they have allowed “dozens of veterans to die” and “repeatedly admitted migrants later implicated in terrorism.”
The Republican nominee was responding to a blistering attack by the US president earlier Tuesday, who declared him “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House. He challenged Republican lawmakers to drop their support for their party’s nominee, declaring, “There has to come a point at which you say enough.”
The Times of Israel Community.