Donald Trump Jr. Makes Holocaust Joke in Attack on Hillary Clinton and the Media: LISTEN

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Donald Trump Jr. Makes Holocaust Joke in Attack on Hillary Clinton and the Media: LISTEN

Donald Trump Jr. made a Holocaust joke with regard to the media’s treatment of his father today in a radio interview with Mike Stigall on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.

Trump Jr. was comparing treatment of his father by the media to that of Hillary Clinton:

“The media has been her number one surrogate in this. Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest. But the media has built her up. They’ve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of the thing. I mean, if Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now. It’s a very different system — there’s nothing fair about it.”

Listen:

The comments caused immediate reaction:

Pro-tip to Trump surrogates: If you don’t want to sound like Nazis, don’t make specious Holocaust references. t.co/WQXjyKWw6V

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) September 15, 2016

Hey @DonaldJTrumpJr: when your dad’s campaign is associated with Nazis & white supremacists, maybe gas chamber “jokes” aren’t the best idea.

— Aaron Gouveia (@DaddyFiles) September 15, 2016

.@DonaldJTrumpJr: We hope you understand the sensitivity and hurt of making Holocaust jokes. We hope you retract.t.co/jL2ZC9Z8pH

— ADL (@ADL_National) September 15, 2016

Trump Jr. later told MSNBC’s Katy Tur that the joke was not at all anti-Semitic, that he was referencing “corporal punishment”:

Trump Jr. tells @KatyTurNBC that his “gas chamber” comment is referencing corporal punishment, not in any way anti-Semitic.

— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) September 15, 2016

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