Press secretary gave no indication he would resign after stating Hitler,who used gas chambers to abolish Jews in the Holocaust, did not deploy chemical weaponsWhite House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Wednesday that he had let down the US president but gave no hint he would quit over his untrue claim that Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” against his own people.
The press secretary drew criticism from Israel and Germany, and demands from Democrats that he should be fired,after comparing the atrocities of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad unfavourably with those of Hitler, who gassed millions of Jews at extermination camps during the Holocaust. Related: A history of Sean Spicer's gaffes as White House press secretary Related: The White House forgets the Holocaust (again) | Timothy Snyder Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com