CBS News host Margaret Brennan faced intense backlash on Sunday after she claimed during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that “free speech was weaponized” to cause the Holocaust.
Brennan made the comment during an interview on “Face the Nation” while talking about Vice President JD Vance’s speech to European leaders last week in which he called them out for abandoning values like free speech.
“He was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Brennan said while talking about Vance’s speech in Munich, Germany.
Brennan was met with instant pushback online over her claim, including from top elected leaders.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) posted on X: “Free speech caused the Holocaust is an insanely stupid take.”
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