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Trial Balloon · Ep. 194: What Just Happened?

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April 11, 2017 · 2:07 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“You had someone as despicable as Hitler, who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”

— White House press secretary Sean Spicer, quoted by ABC News, on Syria.

Spicer later tried to clarify the comment saying Hitler was “not using the gas on his own people in the same way that Assad is doing… He brought them into Holocaust centers.”

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March 24, 2016 · 7:56 am ET · 30 Comments

“I’m not saying that Donald Trump is necessarily Hitler. I’m not saying that.”

— Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), quoted by the Boston Globe.

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