Borowitz and his wit is one thing, but when your chosen spokesperson seriously utters nonsense that she believes is true is quite another. It's like Drumpf has found his key to appearing to possess superior intelligence . . . surround yourself with incompetent idiots.



Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson says President Obama started Afghanistan war


The Trump campaign rewrote history again Saturday morning.

Donald Trump’s spokeswoman called the war in Afghanistan “Obama’s war,” falsely saying the war started under President Obama.

Katrina Pierson was defending the Republican nominee’s recent comments calling Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the “co-founders” of ISIS in an appearance on CNN.

She cited the war in Afghanistan as a factor in the terror group's origins. The conflict began “after 2007,” she said, when “Al Qaeda was in ashes” following the American troop surge in Iraq.

“Remember, we weren’t even in Afghanistan by this time,” Pierson said. “Barack Obama went into Afghanistan, creating another problem.”

U.S. forces, under President George W. Bush, invaded Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. President Obama was still an Illinois state senator.

ISIS formed as Al Qaeda in Iraq in 2004, with the group changing its name to ISIS after the death of its real founder, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, two years later.

CNN anchor Victor Blackwell, who appeared dumbfounded by Pierson's comments, pointed out that both ISIS and the war began before Obama took office in January 2009. But the spokeswoman stuck to her version of events.

“What I'm saying is the policies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — that was Obama’s war, yes,” Pierson said.

She changed the subject when Blackwell gave her another chance to retract her statements following a commercial break.

“I thought we were talking about the founding of ISIS,” Pierson said. “I mean ISIS came out of the Obama side of the war. Is that not a fact?”

Pierson also made headlines for strange comments earlier this month. She blamed President Obama’s policies for the 2004 death in Iraq of Army Capt. Humayun Khan, whose parents have publicly feuded with Trump.

“It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life,” Pierson said.

The mixed-up spokeswoman did admit later on Saturday that Obama had not started the war in Afghanistan, CNN reported. She said on Twitter that she had trouble hearing Blackwell’s questions.

“For the record, audio disruptions and echoes should be fixed immediately,” Pierson wrote. “Especially when you say it out loud on the air.”


http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/politics/trump-spokeswoman-president-obama-started-afghanistan-war-article-1.2750248

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Rongone wrote:

Another example of Drumpf surrounding himself with incompetent idiots:


Giuliani, backing Trump, appears to briefly forget 9/11


NEW YORK (AP) — Rudolph Giuliani, promoting Donald Trump's national security plan, said Monday that in the "eight years before (President Barack) Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States." That's an apparent omission of the largest terror attack in United States history.

Giuliani was mayor of New York City on Sept. 11, 2001 and in the hours after the World Trade Center fell, while then-President George W. Bush was largely unseen, he became the face of American grief and determination. His brave and graceful performance in the weeks after the towers' collapse earned him the nickname "America's mayor" and he was soon launched into national political stardom, his name synonymous with the response to the attacks. That made his comments Monday all the more puzzling.

"Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office," Giuliani said ahead of Trump's speech on national security.

The eyebrow-raising comments, which were immediately lampooned on social media, were a far cry from Giuliani's usual speeches, which are often peppered with references to the resolve New Yorkers displayed after the attacks. In fact, his discussions of the attacks were so common that Vice President Joe Biden once said of him there were "only three things he mentions in a sentence: A noun, a verb and 9/11."

Jake Menges, a spokesman for the former mayor, told The Associated Press on Monday evening that Giuliani was referring to a lack of major attacks during the remainder of Bush's term.

It was not immediately clear if Giuliani was referring to a lack of major attacks during the remainder of Bush's term. A spokesman for the former mayor did not respond to a request for a clarification.

Earlier in his speech the former mayor made several mentions to the 2001 attack.

"Remember: We didn't start this war; they did. We don't want this war; they do. And they didn't start it even in 2001. They attacked the World Trade Center in 1993," Giuliani said minutes before his apparent gaffe.

Though Giuliani governed the nation's largest city as a moderate Republican, who moved much further to the right when he welcomed Bush to New York for the 2004 Republican National Convention and as he mounted an ill-fated 2008 presidential bid. He has fashioned himself as a sharp critic of Obama as well as Hillary Clinton, whom Giuliani was to run against for the U.S. Senate in 2000 before bowing out after a cancer diagnosis.

But while Giuliani has never publicly blamed Bush for the 2001 attacks, Donald Trump on several occasions during this year's Republican primary made a point of saying that the attacks happened "during the reign of George Bush."

"You always have to look to the person at the top," Trump said in October. "Do I blame George Bush? I only say that he was the president at the time, and you know, you could say the buck stops here."



SHEESH . . . Get a grip Rudy.

Selective memory is great ! 

[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588)]Rudi Giuliani forgetting about 9/11 is the 9/11 of never forgetting.[/color]
 

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