Donald Trump Jr. makes ‘gas chamber’ reference in criticizing media

Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, ‘ Trump Jr. said on the radio show of the Philadelphia-based conservative talker Chris Stigall.

Trump Jr. said that the American Left was trying to ensure that moderators were unfair to his father during the upcoming presidential debates.

Trump Jr. said that he stands by his comment, as he was attempting to reference execution and that he usually says “electric chair” instead of “gas chambers” to get his point across, NBC News reports.

Trump’s comments might be placed in the realm of excusable gaffe or simple hyperbole were it not for the fact of Donald Trump’s support among the alt-right and of Donald Trump Jr.’s own troubled history palling around with white supremacists.

ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. addresses delegates on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

“The liberal, dishonest media is so quick to attack one of the Trumps that they never let the truth get in the way of a good smear”, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement.

Indiscrepancy is not word, but Trump Jr. was doing a live interview and it’s not like he has an English degree from Penn, so whatever.

Later on Thursday, Trump Jr. clarified the statement, saying he was referring to captial punishment, not the Holocaust.

“@DonaldJTrumpJr: We hope you understand the sensitivity and hurt of making Holocaust jokes. ‘We hope you retract”.

Hillary Clinton for America chairman John Podesta called the comments “insensitive”. I think he’s always been the same guy.

As outrage began to build, the Trump Jr. told NBC’s Katy Tur that his comment was “referencing corporal punishment”, and was not meant to be anti-Semitic.