White House press secretary Sean Spicer has been forced to apologise for “insensitive” remarks after claiming Adolf Hitler didn’t “gas his own people”, despite millions of Jews dying in Nazi gas chambers.
Mr Spicer told CNN he mistakenly used “an inappropriate, insensitive reference to the Holocaust,” when comparing Hitler favourably with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
He said there was no comparison and “it was a mistake to do that.” He adds, “It was my blunder.”
The blunder came when he argued Assad had committed worse atrocities than Hitler, saying even the man whose genocidal regimen instigated a world war and killed millions of people didn’t use chemical weapons.
“We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II,” Spicer told reporters. “You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”
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