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Trump Jr. Jokes About “Gas Chamber” in Radio Interview

Trump Jr. made his comment during a radio interview with Philadelphia-based talk radio host Chris Stigall on 1210 WPHT.

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Hinting partiality towards Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Jr. on Thursday said the media has helped the Democratic nominee by letting her “slide” on “every lie” and added that if Republicans did the same, the media would be “warming up the gas chamber” for them, Buzzfeed reports.

He continued: “If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now”.

“The media has been [Hillary Clinton’s] number one surrogate in this”, Trump Jr. begins.

“We hope you understand the sensitivity and hurt of making Holocaust jokes”, the ADL wrote in a tweet addressed to the younger Trump. “We hope you retract”, it followed up in another. “Trivialization of the Holocaust and gas chambers is NEVER okay”.

Trump’s campaign denied that Trump Jr. was referring to the Holocaust, saying he meant the “gas chamber” used in capital punishment.

Trump’s comments might be placed in the realm of excusable gaffe or simple hyperbole were it not for the fact of Donald Trump’s support among the alt-right and of Donald Trump Jr.’s own troubled history palling around with white supremacists. Trump Jr. said he was not referencing the Holocaust.

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When asked by Blitzer if he would designate the white supremacist as such, he responded, “I’m not in the name-calling business, Wolf”. Hillary Clinton retweeted it on her official account.

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