Comparing the Nazi leader with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Spicer told journalists during his regular press briefing at the White House: “We didn’t use chemical weapons in world war two. Many were killed in gas chambers with the use of chemical gas agents such as Zyklon B. Further, Seb Gorka, a top White House foreign policy official, has been tied to the Hungarian group Vitez Rand, which allegedly has historical links to Nazi Germany. “In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust,” he said in an emailed statement. “I was trying to draw a distinction of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2017 20:13 UTC