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North Carolina Politician Under Fire for Comparing Lincoln to Hitler

Commenters continued to leave messages of displeasure, though the statement from Pittman seems to have been removed from his Facebook page

A North Carolina politican caught flak Thursday after writing a Facebook post that compared former President Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler, NBC News reported.

State Rep. Larry Pittman said Lincoln was a "tyrant" just like the German leader. Pittman was replying to a critic who wrote, "The Civil War is over... Get over it."

Pittman responded: "And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it? Lincoln was the same sort (of) tyrant, and personally responsible for the deaths of over 800,000 Americans in a war that was unnecessary and unconstitutional." 

Though the statement from Pittman seems to have been removed from his Facebook page, commenters continued to leave messages of displeasure, including calling him a "warm pile of garbage."

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