You know I just can't. I've tried to wrap my ahead around it several times, give Sean Spicer the benefit of the doubt and...
There is no benefit of the doubt. It is simply Holocaust denial.
"... Hitler, who didn't even sink to the use of chemical weapons..."
Yes Hitler did. Zyklon-B was was used for almost four years at Birkenau II. Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec used carbon monoxide generating engines. There were at least two mobile sealed trucks for carbon monoxide exterminations. And let's not forget the T-4 "euthanasia" program which targeted the disabled and got the nightmare into gear.
"(Hitler) was not using gas on his own people the way Assad is doing."
Point one: Assad and Hitler are moral equivalents. I won't split hairs over who is worse; both represent the worst of humanity.
Second: Jewish people aren't people? Jewish people weren't real Germans? No way to excuse that. No way at all.
"Holocaust centers"
No Sean, vernichtungslager. Extermination camps. Holocaust centers are where we remember, honor and teach about the victims of the Shoah.
Notice when he said this? During Pesach.
This is the same day that our Attorney General said this about Mexicans on the United States border with Mexico:
"We mean criminal organizations that turn cities and suburbs into warzones, that rape and kill innocent citizens and who profit by smuggling poison and other human beings across our borders. Depravity and violence are their calling cards, including brutal machete attacks and beheadings.
It is here, on this sliver of land, where we first take our stand against this filth."
This was calculated. They are sending a message to their base — we are still with you. These people are Nazi authoritarians. Every last one of them.