Trump Spox Refuses to Back Off from ‘Gestapo’ Characterization: It’s Only ‘a Word’

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer grilled Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson for the campaign’s use of the phrase “Gestapo tactics” to describe the Ted Cruz campaign’s winning Colorado’s delegates.

Despite Blitzer’s insistence that “Gestapo” referred to very specific time and place in world history and that “it should not be used,” Pierson refused to admit that the use of the word may have been inappropriate.

“Is it appropriate to use the word ‘Gestapo’?” Blitzer asked. “I assume you know what the Gestapo did.”

“It is a word to define exactly the type of malice that is involved with going after some of these delegates in a very hostile and intimidating way,” Pierson insisted.

She maintained that the Trump campaign would not be cowed into apologizing for use of the word, since it “doesn’t care much for political correctness.”

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