White House SLAMS ‘horribly INSULTING’ and ‘SHAMEFUL’ comments from Joe Scarborough

Joe Scarborough went and compared ICE agents to Nazis today, and the White House stepped right up to slap him down.

From the Hill:

“It is appalling that Joe Scarborough would compare sworn federal law enforcement officers — who put their lives on the line every day to keep American people safe — to Nazis,” White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement. “This is the type of inflammatory and unacceptable rhetoric that puts a target on the backs of our great law enforcement.”

“It is also horribly insulting to the memory of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust,” Gidley continued. “Not only is Scarborough’s rhetoric shameful, but his facts are categorically false.”

Then he shot back with a twitter-style assault:

“While Scarborough is quick to launch into his straight-to-camera outrage over the temporary separation of illegal alien families, he has never shown similar outrage for the permanent separation of American families forever torn apart from their children, who were killed by criminal aliens as a result of Democrats’ open borders policies,” Gidley said.

Here’s what Joe Scarborough said:

“I know children are being marched away to showers, marched away to showers. Being told they are — just like the Nazis said that they were taking people to the showers and then they never came back,” Scarborough said.

“You think they would use another trick like, ‘hey, got a Slurpee room over there; we’re going to take them to get a Slurpee,'” he continued. “That would be better than ‘we’re marching them to the showers and we’ll be right back’ and they never come back.”

The scene painted in Scarborough’s complaint is from a report that was put out recently, but it’s unclear how true it is. In any case, even if it was accurate, there’s an enormous difference between separating children over border security and doing it in order to lead them to a gas chamber where they’re going to be executed. This is just stupid of Joe, and it doesn’t help his cause if he wants to change the policy about separating children at the border…

Here’s the video of Scarborough’s scorn:


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