"Barack Obama went into Afghanistan creating another problem," Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said. | AP Photo Trump spokeswoman: Afghanistan was 'Obama’s war'

Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson on Saturday morning said the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was "Obama's war."

During an interview with CNN's Victor Blackwell, Pierson was asked about the GOP nominee's comments on President Barack Obama as the founder of ISIS, and if they were sarcastic, as Trump had subsequently claimed.


Pierson said it was up to the interpreter, but that Trump didn't mean Obama or Clinton founded ISIS in the literal sense, "they didn't file the paperwork of incorporation," she said.

"If you want to go way back, we can look at the troop surge. And after 2007, al Qaeda was essentially in ashes,” she said. “It was Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who then destroyed the entire rollout by wanting to pull out early, announcing their plans, ignoring intelligence and that is the reason why ISIS is a global issue and not a ...”

Blackwell interrupted Pierson, asking if she said “Barack Obama in 2004."

She replied no, and added: “I said afterwards. After the surge when al Qaeda was in ashes. Entering Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — remember we weren’t even in Afghanistan by this time. Barack Obama went into Afghanistan creating another problem. It was Hillary Clinton and her incidents in Libya, which was also a reckless decision to create that vacuum. They armed the rebels and they're even funding them now.”

Following her statement, Blackwell proceeded to ask if Pierson was saying Obama took the country into Afghanistan post-2009.

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

Earlier this month, Pierson said it was the policies of Obama and Clinton that killed Army Capt. Humayun Khan. Khan was killed in 2004 during the George W. Bush presidency. Trump has recently claimed that Obama was the founder of ISIS, and has said ISIS would give Clinton an "MVP award."

On Saturday afternoon, Pierson appeared to blame the gaffe on technical problems in the CNN studio, tweeting: "For the record, audio disruptions and echos should be fixed immediately. Especially when you say it out loud on the air. @CNN"

Later in the segment, Blackwell fact-checked Pierson's statement, saying that troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001 under President George W. Bush.

He also clarified that ISIS was first created in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq and then morphed into the Islamic State in Iraq in 2006.

"ISIS came out of the Obama side of the war," Pierson said. "This is also Obama saying they were the JV team. Again, the incompetence of even recognizing the threat while he was in office. And then to make it worse, going into Libya and creating a vacuum, leaving all those weapons behind, essentially arming the enemy."