White House press secretary Sean Spicer addressed the supposed feud between two of President Donald Trump's top advisers, saying he thinks it's been "overblown" in the media. To know when you screw up that you possibly offended a lot of people.
Later, Cramer told The Associated Press he thinks Spicer meant to say "Hitler didn't use chemical weapons in warfare ... which is technically true".
"I think that's healthy for the president that he's not getting a monlithic group of advice saying 'you should only do this, '" he said. "Mine to ask forgiveness for", Spicer said. "He brought them into the Holocaust centers, I understand that".
"I was obviously trying to make a point about the heinous acts that Assad had made against his own people last week, using chemical weapons and gas", he said. When asked to clarify his remarks, Spicer referred to "Holocaust centers" instead of concentration camps - where over 3 million people were killed - and attempted to draw a nuanced comparison between Syrian chemical weapon attacks and Nazi genocide.
"It's a very holy week for both Jewish people and the Christian people and to make a gaffe and mistake is inexcusable and reprehensible".
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Her statement that France was not responsible for the deportation of Jews during the second World War has also hurt her. The pictures triggered an investigation for "dissemination of violent images". "This is normal.
Reaction from around the world continued Wednesday. "There's no comparing atrocities", he added, seemingly remorseful and embarrassed.
Trump says he won't be sending troops to Syria-even though there are more than 1,000 US troops already on the ground. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said on Twitter, "Someone get @PressSec a refresher history course on Hitler stat (hashtag)#Icantbelievehereallysaidthat".
Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Jewish Republican from NY, said in a statement that the comparison could be made "a little differently and it would be accurate, but it's important to clear up that Hitler did in fact use chemical warfare to murder innocent people".
"While Jewish families across America celebrate Passover, the chief spokesman of this White House is downplaying the horror of the Holocaust", she said in a statement. Until Monday the administration had maintained that last week's missile strikes were in response to the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons against its citizens.
Spicer meeting the wrong end of Godwin's law could hardly come at a worse time for the White House-compounding the sense that the Administration lacks discipline after a wild first 100 days.
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