"I didn't say anything about the Holocaust. I was talking about media bias, I was talking about, if you're a conservative, it's essentially capital punishment," the son of GOP White House nominee Donald Trump insisted on ABC's "Good Morning America."

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"It was poor choice of words, perhaps," he conceded. "But in no way, shape or form was I ever even remotely talking about the Holocaust."

Trump Jr. pointed to a tweet from Jake Tapper on Thursday in which the CNN anchor noted that Trump Jr. used similar language arguing media bias in July except he said "electric chair" instead of invoking gas chambers.

Donald Trump's Republican presidential campaign has argued that the younger Trump's remark about "warming up the gas chamber" was taken out of context.