(ASSOCIATED PRESS) — WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Randy Weber apologized Tuesday for comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler in a tweet related to the Paris terrorist attacks.
Congressional Democrats and Jewish groups had denounced the comment Weber sent on his official Twitter account Monday night.
“I need to first apologize to all those offended by my tweet,” the Texas congressman said in a written statement, which he also tweeted. “It was not my intention to trivialize the Holocaust nor to compare the President to Adolf Hitler.”
The tweet on (at)TXRandy14 read: “Even Adolph Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris. (For all the wrong reasons.) Obama couldn’t do it for right reasons”
