Katrina Pierson’s greatest hits: An abridged timeline of the Trump spokeswoman’s crazed commentary
Given the opportunity, Pierson will sit in front of a TV camera and invariably spew hate, idiocy, and non sequiturs
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Brendan Gauthier Thursday, Aug 4, 2016 03:03 AM
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“Donald Trump never voted for the Iraq War; Hillary Clinton did,” Pierson argued. “It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost [Khan’s] life.”
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Khan — whose parents’ speech at the Democratic National Convention poked the Trump bear and sparked an ongoing feud — was killed by a car bomb in Iraq in 2004, during George W. Bush’s (not Obama’s) presidency.
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December 2015:
Debating with CNN’s S.E. Cupp the constitutionality of Trump’s sweeping Muslim ban, Pierson argued, “So what? They’re Muslim!”
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Asked about the dangers inherent in giving the nuclear codes to a reactionary narcissist like Trump, Pierson said, “What good does it do to have a good nuclear triad if you’re afraid to use it?”
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January 2016: .. [she defended this tweet]
Katrina Pierson @KatrinaPierson
Perfect Obama's dad born in Africa, Mitt Romney's dad born in Mexico. Any pure breeds left? #CNNDebate 1:06 PM - 20 Jan 2012
[by saying she was a half-breed and was often called one]
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February:
Pierson appeared on “The Lead” with host Jake Tapper and conservative foe S.E. Cupp to defend Trump’s claim that then-GOP candidate Marco Rubio was a “naturalized” U.S. citizen.
“The question here is is he a naturalized citizen,” Pierson argued. “We know that his parents were not citizens at the time [of his birth], and that makes a huge difference with regards to eligibility.”
“It actually doesn’t,” Tapper corrected as Cupp laughed off-screen.
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July:
Defending her boss’s many bankruptcies, Pierson chose the best metaphor to inadvertently make Trump seem like a satanic caricature.
“A lot of times, you have to use restructures to preserve jobs,” she argued. “Mr. Trump believes in putting your oxygen mask on first before helping others.”
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