Secretary State Marco Rubio vehemently objected to CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan’s clumsy suggestion “free speech” was “weaponized” by Nazi Germany to conduct genocide on Jews during the Holocaust.

“I have to disagree with you: Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” Rubio shot back at Brennan. “The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal, because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they – they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.

“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.”

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