Sean Spicer is reliably, sometimes even endearingly, terrible at his job as Press Secretary. But his comments during Tuesday’s press briefing on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler are astonishing. Not just because they’re blatantly, breathtakingly wrong, but because a man whose job is remembering and relaying facts can’t accurately recount one of the most notorious events of the 20th century.
While discussing America’s recent missile strike on a Syrian airfield, Spicer reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to removing al-Assad, saying his decision to use chemical weapons against civilians forced the US to react. Then, totally unprompted, Spicer compared al-Assad to Adolf Hitler, saying, “You had someone as despicable as Hitler, who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”
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