Donald Trump Jr. Says Media ‘Warming Up the Gas Chambers’ for Donald

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By Nathan Guttman September 16, 2016

The Trumps are stumbling over an insensitive Holocaust reference once again. And this time it’s Donald Trump, Jr.’s turn.

Speaking on a Philadelphia talk radio interview Wednesday, Trump Jr. lashed out at the media, which, he claims, is biased in favor of Hillary Clinton.

And this is how it came out:

“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 this thing. If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now.”

Yes, Trump Jr. just compared the media’s treatment of his father to the mass murder of Jews and other innocents in gas chambers carried out by the Nazis during World War II.

Two weeks ago, the same Trump Jr. retweeted a known neo-Nazi. Earlier in the race, it was the candidate himself who got caught retweeting a Nazi reference aimed at Bernie Sanders.

The Trump campaign has repeatedly sought to disavow any linkage to neo-Nazi and white supremacist activists, including former KKK leader David Duke.

Contact Nathan Guttman at [email protected] or on Twitter @nathanguttman

Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha’aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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