Spicer apologizes for Hitler, chemical weapons remark

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologized for claiming during Tuesday’s press briefing that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons.

“I mistakenly used an inappropriate, insensitive reference to the Holocaust for which there is no comparison,” Spicer told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

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