Trump Camp Defends Don Jr.: He Was Talking Executions, Not The Holocaust!

Donald Trump Jr. talks to reporters while campaigning for his father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, at the Tilt'n Diner Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016, in Tilton, N.H. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump campaign both defended his “gas chamber” quip in a Thursday interview, saying that he was making a reference to capital punishment rather than the Holocaust, as many had interpreted it.

Trump Jr.’s remark to a Philadelphia radio station that the media would be “warming up the gas chamber” if Republicans acted the way Democrats did this election cycle stirred up controversy and ire from many, including the Anti-Defamation League, which asked him to apologize on Twitter:

Trump Jr. later told NBC News that he stands by his comments, adding that he normally uses the phrase “electric chair” to make the same point about executions.

The Trump campaign defended the real estate scion as well, blaming the media for taking the “gas chamber” remark “out of context.”

“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 in a statement, as quoted by NBC News. “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.”

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  1. The liberal, dishonest media this.
    "The liberal, dishonest media that.
    Rub my tummy, roll me over,
    oops I pooped my pants!
    And my name is Don Jr.

  2. And these genetic idiots will now blow it up for another news cycle.

  3. Seems they’s always explaining what they REALLY meant when so-and-so said such-and-such.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Well then…trivializing capital punishment is so much better.

    Carry on…nothing to see here…

  5. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Pha-leeeze. The racist hate retweeter wants some latitude with gas chamber humor? Without the racist hate tweets and a daddy presidential candidate old Don Jr.'s immature joke would have just been that…

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