by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2025 Real World News
During an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CBS News host Margaret Brennan brought up Vice President JD Vance’s speech in Munich where he criticized European countries for censorship of their citizens.
“Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Brennan said, referencing Vance. “He met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that.”
Yes, Brennan suggested that Hitler “weaponized free speech” in order to conduct the Holocaust.
Rubio quickly set the CBS personality straight, saying:
“Well, I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal … 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.”
Last week, Vance slammed European leaders for allowing extreme laws censoring free speech, saying he worries more about Europe’s “threats from within” than from threats like Russia and China.
“While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine … the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor,” said Vance.
“What I worry about is the threat from within – the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
Following Brennan’s comment, Vance wrote on X: “This is a crazy exchange. Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech?”
“This is the first time I’ve heard the theory that the Holocaust wasn’t conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones,” another X user wrote.
Utterly bizarre assertion from Margaret Brennan. She claims the Nazi Holocaust occurred because “free speech was weaponized” in Germany, thus making Vance’s comments all the more worrisome. Recasting the Holocaust as a consequence of excessive free speech is just totally bonkers pic.twitter.com/2vefGlzT6s
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 16, 2025
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