Anti-Defamation League Blasts Donald Trump Jr.’s ‘Out of Line’ Holocaust Joke
Source: TheWrap
The Anti-Defamation League is demanding Donald Trump Jr. retract a joke he made about the Holocaust during an interview on Thursday, saying his comments were “out of line.”
“Donald Trump Jr.’s comment about the media ‘warming up the gas chambers’ for Republicans was completely out of line,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement to TheWrap. “Trivialization of the Holocaust is never acceptable. We hope he will come to understand the sensitivities and the hurt his remark may have caused to Holocaust survivors and their families, and will retract his words and apologize to those he may have offended.”
The Trump campaign followed with its own statement on Thursday, attacking the media for misrepresenting his comments.
“The liberal, dishonest media is so quick to attack one of the Trumps that they never let the truth get in the way of a good smear,” Trump spokesman Jason Miller said. “Don Jr. was clearly referring to capital punishment to make the case that the media continues to take words out of context in order to serve as the propaganda arm of the Hillary Clinton campaign — something that’s only gotten worse as Trump’s poll numbers have improved.”
Donald Trump’s son, who’s been acting as a main surrogate for his father’s campaign, made a casual reference to the Holocaust on Thursday as he spoke about the media’s double standard in covering his father.
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