Aleppo Flub Was a Human Mistake, Gary Johnson Tells ‘60 Minutes’
- Libertarian says he doesn’t want to make excuses about lapse
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Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson speaks on Aug. 12, 2016, in Las Vegas.
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Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson owned up to a recent incident in which he didn’t recognize Aleppo as the city at the center of the humanitarian crisis spawned by Syria’s civil war, saying that he didn’t want to make excuses for himself.
“I am human,” Johnson, 63, a former two-term governor of New Mexico, told CBS News’s “60 Minutes” of the stumble, which occurred in an MSNBC interview on Sept. 8.