A spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has blamed President Barack Obama for invading Afghanistan ― a foreign policy decision he never made. “Barack Obama went into Afghanistan creating another problem.”“That was Obama’s war,” she declared later in the program, when asked to clarify if she meant Obama was responsible for its launch. In fact, the invasion of Afghanistan took place in 2001 after the attacks on September 11 of that year. Pierson most likely mistook Obama’s announced surge in December 2009 ― the outgrowth of his campaign policy ― as an actual invasion. CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that President Obama’s term in the White House began in 2008.

Source: Huffington Post August 13, 2016 15:25 UTC