NANCY PELOSI/POLITICS/TRUMP PEOPLE/SEAN SPICER: “House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called for the firing of White House press secretary Sean Spicer following his comments he made Tuesday [4-11-17] at his briefing related to Adolf Hitler and the use chemical weapons.
‘While Jewish families across America celebrate Passover, the chief spokesman of this White House is downplaying the horror of the Holocaust,’ she said in a statement. ‘Sean Spicer must be fired, and the President must immediately disavow his spokesman’s statements. Either he is speaking for the President, or the President should have known better than to hire him.’
Spicer, in an effort to shame Russia’s alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his use of chemical weapons, said Tuesday that Hitler ‘didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons’ during World War II.
Hitler didn’t use use chemical weapons on the battlefield but he and the Nazis used gas chambers to exterminate Jews.
‘You had someone who was despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,’ Spicer said. ‘So you have to, if you are Russia, ask yourself is this a country and a regime that you want to align yourself with.’ “
-Daniella Diaz and Miranda Green, “Nancy Pelosi: ‘Sean Spicer must be fired’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 11, 2017