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BREAKING: Trump Pardons Hitler For Holocaust

“If you know your WWII history, as I do, Adolf totally denied it. You’ve got to believe him…I mean, he denied it”

Trump: “Maybe he imprisoned some of the bad Jews, but Hitler says again and again, ‘there was no Holocaust,’ and I believe him.” (Credit: timesofisrael.com)

President Donald Trump created a storm of controversy over the weekend when he appeared to give Adolf Hitler a pass for the mass murder of Jews and other persecuted groups by the Nazis during World War II.

Saying he “recently read up on it,” Mr. Trump referenced several dubious sources of WWII-era German propaganda, in which Third Reich leaders, and Hitler in particular, claimed there was no Holocaust.

“Every time anyone asked Hitler about the concentration camps he totally denied it,” said the president. “Not just once, but time after time. He said he never imprisoned or killed any Jews. I mean, how many times can you ask a guy? If Adolf says he didn’t do it, and he was really upset when people kept asking him, eventually you have to believe him.”

Mr. Trump’s specious reasoning for accepting Adolf Hitler’s repudiation of involvement in one of history’s most notorious and well-documented massacres echoed recent comments the president made clearing Vladimir Putin of any interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Mr. Trump has said repeatedly that Putin’s…