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Ben Shapiro at March For Life rally: ‘No pro-life person would kill baby Hitler’

by Joe Concha - 01/18/19 5:03 PM ET

Conservative radio host Ben Shapiro said Friday at the annual March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., that “no pro-life person would kill baby Hitler” because “baby Hitler was a baby,” with the comments quickly going viral on social media.

{mosads}“The argument, I guess here, is that would you kill baby Hitler?” Shapiro said in answering a question that appeared to be submitted online during a live broadcast at the anti-abortion rally.

“And the truth is that no pro-life person on earth would kill baby Hitler, because baby Hitler wasn’t Hitler, adult Hitler was Hitler. Baby Hitler was a baby,” he continued.

“What you presumably want to do with baby Hitler is take baby Hitler out of baby Hitler’s house and move baby Hitler into a better house where he would not grow up to be Hitler, right? That’s the idea.”

The hashtag #BabyHitler began trending on Twitter not long after the comments on Friday afternoon, drawing the ire of mostly liberals on the platform.

WTF? Ben Shapiro blabbers on about not killing baby hitler. This has to be dubbed- No one can really be this moronic? Oh wait I forgot- it is Ben Shapiro. https://t.co/LnPCdaOzpb

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 18, 2019

ben shapiro thinks baby hitler should be rehabilitated but guatemalan babies should be yeeted over the border wall w a cannon.

— Hasan Piker (@hasanthehun) January 18, 2019

Nothing says you’re gonna be on the right side of history like having more sympathy for Baby Hitler than you do for actual children at the border

— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) January 18, 2019

Ben Shapiro is what stupid thinks smart sounds like. https://t.co/DFx693hO2q

— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) January 18, 2019

*Ben Shapiro, walking out of a time machine, demanding baby Hitler debate him*

— maura quint (@behindyourback) January 18, 2019

I think Ben Shapiro has a good point.

We need to go back in time and take baby Ben Shapiro out of baby Ben Shapiro’s house and move him into a better house where he wouldn’t grow up to be Ben Shapiro.

— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) January 18, 2019

Shapiro, 35, has a large following among younger conservatives. “The Ben Shapiro Show” podcast is downloaded 10 million times every month and 70 percent of his audience is under the age of 40, according to a 2017 report in The New York Times.

President Trump recorded a video message for those gathered at the annual rally on Friday, while Vice President Pence spoke at the event.

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