"This is a conversation we are starting - to develop a safer center lane," he tweeted. "The hyper-"tolerant" left has declared certain topics not safe."Lance Laifer, Scaramucci's purported "partner" in Scaramucci Post, spent hours on Twitter defending the poll and engaging with detractors. Laifer, a former hedge fund manager turned social media specialist, repeatedly told critics that he himself is Jewish."It's not an opinion poll," he wrote. "It's a fact poll to highlight the ignorance of the Holocaust, or at worst to highlight extreme Anti-Semitism." Laifer also lamented that "It is only a little more than seventy years since the Holocaust ended and knowledge of it is slipping."When posting the poll, Laifer added a note "the correct answer is six million. Please fill in the proper answer and retweet this poll." It is unclear what was expected to be the purpose of a poll in which the answer was already given.Neither Yad Vashem nor the Simon Wiesenthal Center responded to a request for comment by press time. The SWC could not confirm if Scaramucci had made the promised donation. The Anti-Defamation League, meanwhile, criticized both the original poll and its latest incarnation."Let's leave the Holocaust education to the experts," it posted on Twitter.So let’s leave people unaware of the magnitude of the tragedy because animals are out there. I am not buying it. https://t.co/LXBF7dKeII
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) October 21, 2017