Brooklyn pols call for Spicer’s ouster
Hitler remarks from White House spokesman draw fire
Brooklyn elected officials reacted to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s remarks Tuesday about Adolf Hitler and chemical weapons with shock and anger as Trump’s spokesman attempted to repair the damage his controversial statement generated.
Two elected officials, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Borough President Eric Adams, called for Spicer to be fired.
“In the latest disgraceful incident from the Bannon-led White House, the president’s spokesman made the unconscionable assertion that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons to kill millions of innocent Jewish men, women and children. On Passover, nonetheless. He must be terminated. Immediately,” Jeffries (D-Central Brooklyn-Coney Island) said in a statement.
Adams, who called Spicer’s remarks “callous,” added that the press secretary’s assertion from the White House podium “is a slap in the face to the memory of every man, woman and child who was murdered in gas chambers at Nazi concentration camps.”