White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized late Tuesday after stating in his daily briefing that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." "Today I was trying to describe the attack that [Syrian President Bashar] Assad made on his own people using chemical weapons," Spicer told Fox News. Spicer was discussing last week's chemical weapons attack, which killed nearly 90 Syrian civilians, when he said "we didn't use chemical weapons in World War II." Spicer later added that "someone as despicable as Hitler ... didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." Until Monday the administration had maintained that last week's airstrikes were in response to the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons against its own citizens.

Source: Fox News April 11, 2017 23:07 UTC