The son of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is facing criticism after he referenced the Holocaust to illustrate how he believes the media treats Republicans and Democrats differently.
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That was Donald Trump Jr. during a radio interview, and many media outlets jumped on the “gas chamber” part of his comment. “They’ve let her slide on every (discrepancy), on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing”, he said. Trump Jr begins around the 9 minute mark. And Donald Trump says stuff every day that used to be considered as disqualifying for being president. Hillary Clinton retweeted McMullin’s comment on her official account, according to Haaretz.
Critics passed around a 2012 tweet by Trump Jr. that had gone viral earlier thanking his family “greenskeeper” for skipping his own sister’s wedding to work for them.
Nazis used gas chambers during World War Two to kill millions of Jews imprisoned in European concentration camps.
“We hope you understand the sensitivity and hurt of making Holocaust jokes”, the ADL wrote in a tweet addressed to the younger Trump.
Talking on a Philadelphia radio station, Trump Jr. said that the media has been Hillary Clinton’s “number one surrogate” during the presidential campaign, charging that it has “built her up”. The campaign later said Trump Jr. was referring to capital punishment, though the Clinton campaign quickly seized on the remarks.
Moral of the story: Never, ever make Holocaust jokes.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League CEO, told Trump Jr. on Twitter that “trivialization of the Holocaust is out of line”.
“I think it’s never acceptable to use language like that”, Podesta added.
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“Because he’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create. financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from (his father’s) main message”, Trump, Jr. told the Tribune-Review in Pennsylvania in a piece published Wednesday.
