In a Wednesday interview with a Philadelphia radio station, Trump Jr. said if Republicans conducted themselves like Democrats do, the media would “be warming up the gas chamber”.
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“It was poor choice of words, perhaps, but in no way, shape or form was I ever even remotely talking about the Holocaust”.
“The media has been her number one surrogate in this”.
His father’s campaign also released a statement that reiterated Trump Jr.’s clarification and said the original interpretation was another example of the media twisting the campaign’s messages. They’ve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing.
“I mean, if Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now”, he continued.
Let’s just take a moment to be crystal clear.
However, Trump Jr. later clarified to NBC News that he was referring to capital punishment and not the chambers used by the Nazis to kill Jews during World War II.
Politicians and public figures immediately criticized Trump Jr. for his insensitive reference to the Holocaust.
Donald Trump, Jr.’s handlers didn’t like WTAE reporter Bob Mayo’s question about how senior Trump’s charity foundation is spending its money.
The three alt-right leaders who gathered in D.C. this afternoon made two things very clear: They think white people are genetically predisposed to be more moral and intelligent than black people, and they do not want to share their envisioned utopian ethno-state with folks of the Jewish persuasion. The answer is none, suggesting that Greenblatt believed Trump Jr. was being disingenuous.
This is hardly the first time allegations of anti-Semitism have crept into the 2016 campaign.
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Trump defended himself on Twitter, saying it more closely resembled a sheriff’s badge – and again taking a swipe at political journalists. Conservative independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin tweeted that the comment was “an unsurprising Nazi reference” that highlighted the “real Trump”.
