Trump camp: Media took ‘gas chamber’ line out of context

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign is blaming the media for taking a comment about “warming up the gas chamber” made by his son Donald Trump Jr. out of context.

{mosads}”The liberal, dishonest media is so quick to attack one of the Trumps that they never let the truth get in the way of a good smear,” senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement.

“Don Jr. was clearly referring to capital punishment to make the case that the media continues to take words out of context in order to serve as the propaganda arm of the Hillary Clinton campaign — something that’s only gotten worse as Trump’s poll numbers have improved.”

Trump camp responds to hits on Don Jr. saying media would be “warming up the gas chamber” if Trump acted like HRC. pic.twitter.com/sj2XwfG20O

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) September 15, 2016

Trump Jr. made the “gas chamber” comment during an interview Wednesday on Philadelphia’s CBS radio affiliate.

“The media has been her No. 1 surrogate in this,” he said, referring to Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, on 1210 WPHT. “Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up.

“They’ve let her slide on every discrepancy, on every lie, on every [Democratic National Committee] game trying to get [Sen.] Bernie Sanders [I-Vt.] out of this thing. If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now,” he continued.

Donald Trump often has railed against the media, calling its coverage of his campaign dishonest and biased.