Sean Spicer

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• 7-6-17
  

  To the American Colonists, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer & the Rest of the Trump Crowd Would Seem Familiar Characters

  by Andrew Wehrman

  The way they’re being depicted today resonates.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  5-4-17
  

  America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust

  by Andrea Pitzer

  When White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested on April 11 that atrocities carried out under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were in some way worse than those of Adolf Hitler, his statement placed him firmly in the bosom of a fine American tradition.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-11-17
  

  Hitler refused to use sarin during WWII. The mystery is why.

  Over the years, historians (armchair and scholarly) and psychologists have speculated that maybe Hitler didn’t use sarin because he was a victim of a mustard gas attack in 1918, during World War I, and knew the misery of such weapons.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  4-12-17
  

  Washington’s demonization of Foes jumps Shark with Sean Spicer on Hitler

  by Juan Cole

  But Spicer’s problem was not in misspeaking. He got himself into trouble because he just did what Washington does. He demonized the enemy du jour.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4-11-17
  

  Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer: Even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons

  Later in the briefing, Spicer walked back his remarks when a reporter challenged him to explain, saying Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons “in the same way” as Assad.