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White House Spokesman Stumbles Over Assad-Hitler Comparison

In the middle of an international debate about Syria, Bashar Assad, Russia and Iran, White House press secretary Sean Spicer made an ill-conceived, ahistorical reference to Hitler.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer answers reporters' questions during the daily news conference at the White House on Tuesday.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer warned Russia today that its alliance with Syria is putting it "on the wrong side of history, in a really bad way, really quickly."

The press secretary found himself in the same

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