Katrina Pierson Chokes After CNN Finally Fact Checks Her Blaming Obama For Capt. Khan's Death

Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson struggled on Wednesday to defend her assertion that Barack Obama "probably" caused the death of a Muslim soldier who died in Iraq while George W. Bush was in office.

On Tuesday, Pierson had suggested that the president and Hillary Clinton had caused the death Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan by changing the rules of engagement in Iraq. But Khan died in 2004, four years before Obama took office.

CNN's Alisyn Camerota and John Berman hammered Pierson on that point when she appeared on the network the next day.

"Do you want to apologize to [Humayun Khan's father, Khizr Khan]?" Camerota asked.

"Apologize for the timeline," Pierson said. "The timeline is very simple and true, Alisyn. Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq. She did not support the surge [after Khan's death]. Barack Obama made things worse by invading more countries."

"But this was in 2004 when George W. Bush was president," Camerota reminded her guest.

Berman repeated Pierson's earlier words, which claimed that "President Obama and Hillary Clinton changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life."

"You do acknowledge now that there you were just wrong," Berman pressed.

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