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The Huffington Post reports:
Republican House candidate Carl Paladino praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s ability to rouse “the crowds” and declared Hitler “the kind of leader we need today” in a February 2021 interview on the radio station WBEN in Buffalo, New York.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Republican Conference, the third-ranking position in GOP House leadership, swiftly endorsed Paladino earlier this week.
When presented with Paladino’s statement that Hitler is “the kind of leader we need today,” Stefanik claimed it was taken out of context. “I condemn any statement, but don’t take it out of context,” Stefanik told HuffPost. “That is not accurate reporting.”
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Well for some reason the show’s podcast page of that episode has been taken down. Here is an archive of that episode courtesy of https://t.co/PO78aBjHmS: https://t.co/e746cr7WnT
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) June 9, 2022
Both Stefanik and Paladino are pointing to a 2010 quote where Paladino said the Holocaust was bad. But Paladino also basically compared gay marriage to the evil of the Holocaust in his list of things “we must all be angry about” https://t.co/M8UB7gMhzG by @PaulBlu @JNicholsonInDC
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) June 9, 2022
Elise Stefanik-backed Republican straight up praises Hitler: “The kind of leader we need today” https://t.co/Q2dChcCTdu
— Salon (@Salon) June 9, 2022
BREAKING: Elise Stefanik endorses pro-Hitler candidate to replace the one guy in the @GOP who wanted to protect #Buffalo from the next gun massacre https://t.co/acej0fdouh
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) June 9, 2022