Russia in Nazi gibe over pix

IT’S BEEN a few weeks since a Holocaust analogy came from the White House, so now the Russians are providing them.

A spokesman for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday a report about the Kremlin allegedly sneaking a photographer into the White House made staff members “feel like Jews in 1933.”

The Nazi Germany comment was made to The Washington Post after the paper reported the White House was tricked into letting a Russian state photographer snap and release photos of President Trump meeting with Kremlin diplomats in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

A Trump official told the Post the White House didn’t know the photographer documenting the meeting also worked for Tass, a staterun news agency.

No other media were allowed to cover Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Lavrov, which came the day after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, who was leading the investigation into the Trump campaign’s Russia connections.

Pictures of a smiling Trump with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak quickly appeared online through Tass — stunning White House officials and providing terrible optics for the White House.

Trump acknowledged in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Thursday that he’d invited Lavrov at the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but noted the meeting had been long scheduled.

Commentators wondered if it was a security risk to allow a Kremlintied cameraman into the Oval Office.

Georgetown University professor Colin Kahl asked on Twitter, “Deadly serious Q: Was it a good idea to let a Russian gov photographer & all their equipment into the Oval Office?”

Davis Cohen, the former deputy director of the CIA, wrote back to him: “No, it was not.”