Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, admitted Friday that he should not have invoked the imagery of a “gas chamber” Thursday while discussing media bias, but insisted that he was not making a reference to the Holocaust.
Trump Jr. said on ABC that he used a “poor choice in words” by using the line, which was roundly criticized by Democrats.
“I didn’t say anything about the Holocaust. I was talking about media bias, I was talking about, if you’re a conservative, it’s essentially capital punishment,” Trump Jr. said, telling the host that CNN’s Jake Tapper pointed out that he made a similar analogy using the “electric chair.”
“It was poor choice of words, perhaps,” he said. “But in no way, shape or form was I ever even remotely talking about the Holocaust.”
On Thursday, Trump Jr. told a Philadelphia-based radio host that if his father or anyone in the GOP acted the way former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has, they would be firing up the “gas chamber.”
