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    13 Eye-Popping Quotes That Defined The Week

    From the White House press secretary's comparison of Hitler and Syria's President Bashar Assad to Trump's chocolate cake and dropping a bomb in Afghanistan, it was a heck of a week.
    by Domenico Montanaro Apr 15, 2017 3 minutes
    White House press secretary Sean Spicer waits for an interview on Tuesday to speak about a comparison he made between Syria's President Bashar Assad and Hitler during an earlier press briefing at the White House.

    For someone who speaks with as much conviction as President Trump, he sure has a way of changing positions with an equal level of certitude.

    We looked into those reversals here and here, and some of them make up a good chunk of some of the list below of eye-popping quotes from the week that was. You can vote on which one you think is worthy of quote of the week on the NPR Politics Facebook page.

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