CBS News reporter Margaret Brennan is in hot water…
Vice President JD Vance snapped at Brennan after she claimed that Nazis “weaponized” free speech in order to perpetrate the Holocaust.
Her remark occurred during a Sunday interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, during which she pressed the Trump official over comments made by Vance in Munich earlier this week. Vance criticized European NATO allies on Tuesday for stifling free speech and claimed the enemy of the continent was not Russia or China but rather the “enemy within.”
Brennan also criticized Vance for visiting with leaders of Germany’s far-right AfD party, stating, “Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide, and he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups.”
Rubio responded, “No, I have to disagree with you.” He added:
Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So, that’s not an accurate reflection of history.
Multiple conservatives and prominent Trump allies slammed Brennan for making the comment following the Sunday interview on Face The Nation. However, Vance responded with a quick response on X mocking Brennan.
“This is a crazy exchange,” Vance wrote to his followers on Sunday. “Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech?”
The exchange triggered furious responses online:
I wonder if Brennan got her start the same way as Babwa Wawa and Kammie the Kommie?