Anti-Defamation League blasts Trump for invoking 'Nazi Germany'

[Jose Garcia]

Source: The Hill

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday condemned President-elect Donald Trump for invoking Nazi Germany in his criticism of the U.S. intelligence community, arguing his comments trivialize the Holocaust.

"The President-elect’s use of Nazi Germany to make a political analogy is not only an inappropriate comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement Wednesday.

“ADL always has maintained that glib comparisons to Nazi Germany are offensive and a trivialization of the Holocaust,” he said. “It would be helpful for the president-elect to explain his intentions or apologize for the remark.”

Trump initially made the comparison Wednesday morning on Twitter, apparently enraged by news reports that intelligence officials briefed him on an unverified dossier claiming the Russians had collected salacious information on him.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/313821-anti-defamation-league-blasts-trumps-comparison-of-us-to-nazi

[tenorly]

1. So now the Pee-resident elect is comparing our intelligence services to the Nazis.

What a child.

[mobeau69]

2. Plus, he fucked up again.

[tenorly]

3. He certainly did.

Of all the hobbies a President can have in life, deliberately making enemies of the CIA is probably the least advisable.

[NobodyHere]

4. Hopefully the ADL never reads DU

[JI7]

6. anonymous posters on internet v pres elect

[TygrBright]

5. No, Mister PeeOTUS, the Nazi regime doesn't start here until a week from next Monday. n/t

[Gothmog]

7. Yeah for the ADL