Speaking at a party function, Michigan GOP Chairwoman Kristina Karamo mocked criticism of a tweet she wrote in which she used the Holocaust to promote the Second Amendment, according to a recording obtained by the Daily Beast. The tweet repeated a common right-wing theory that the genocide was possible because gun control had left its victims unarmed.
It showed a picture of wedding rings that had been left behind by murdered Jews. “Before they collected all these wedding rings… they collected all the guns,” a message next to the image reads.
The tweet was roundly criticized, with the Michigan GOP being asked to take it down.