Sean Spicer was in damage control mode on Wednesday morning, April 12, meeting exclusively with an NBC reporter to issue a formal apology for remarks about the Holocaust that have been ridiculed as inaccurate and insensitive.
"It was a distinction that didn't need to get made," Spicer said about his use of Hitler's genocide of Jews in Nazi Germany as a reference point for how grave reports on President Bashar al-Assad's chemical attacks on Syrian civilians were. "They both did horrendous heinous things to innocent people, and to make any kind of comparison is really regrettable and a mistake," he said.
Spicer sent the public into an uproar on Tuesday morning when during his daily briefing with the press he said that not even Hitler had gone so far as to use chemical weapons. The statement was immediately rebuked by both opponents and supporters of the administration, with some calling for him to be replaced. By late Tuesday the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect also called upon the President to ax Spicer, after scolding the press secretary for, they say, denying the Holocaust as Jews observe Passover of all times.
"I'm absolutely sorry, especially during a week like this, to make a comparison that is inappropriate and inexcusable," Spicer told NBC News.
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