False: "Very Fine People On Both Sides"

[Revoltingest]

Trump is an awful corrupt bigoted thug.
The truth about him is bad enuf.
So it needn't be embellished with falsehoods.

No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People'

However, the accuracy of what Trump did claim – that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the 2017 Unite the Right debacle – is in question.

www.snopes.com

Excerpted...
We looked into these claims, and found that while Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," meaning both the protesters and the counterprotesters, he also condemned neo-Nazis and white nationalists outright and said he was specifically referring to those who were there only to participate in the statue protest. We found the original clip on C-SPAN, and transcribed the relevant section below:

 

[esmith]

Yeah, but Biden is still spouting it....of course when you are as mentally challenged as he is now........

 

[Revoltingest]

Yeah, but Biden is still spouting it....of course when you are as mentally challenged as he is now........

This would be more about dishonesty than senility.

 

[Kathryn]

Biden has always been the story telling type.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Biden has always been the story telling type.

He can put a few fishermen I know of to ultimate shame.

 

[fantome profane]

Trump is an awful corrupt bigoted thug.
The truth about him is bad enuf.
So it needn't be embellished with falsehoods.

No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People'

However, the accuracy of what Trump did claim – that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the 2017 Unite the Right debacle – is in question.

www.snopes.com

Excerpted...
We looked into these claims, and found that while Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," meaning both the protesters and the counterprotesters, he also condemned neo-Nazis and white nationalists outright and said he was specifically referring to those who were there only to participate in the statue protest. We found the original clip on C-SPAN, and transcribed the relevant section below:

I am calling bull on this. Yes he meant the "protesters and counter-protesters". But the "protesters" were Nazi's, white supremacists and antisemites.

Those are the facts and don't tell me I am embellishing. And don't tell me "there were very fine people on both sides".

 

[Revoltingest]

I am calling bull on this. Yes he meant the "protesters and counter-protesters". But the "protesters" were Nazi's, white supremacists and antisemites.

Those are the facts and don't tell me I am embellishing. And don't tell me "there were very fine people on both sides".

Opinions are facts now, eh.

You deny the distinction that trump made
between groups comprising the protesters,
& his criticism noted below.
Excerpted from Snopes (underline added)....
In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally."


Trump is terrible.
But let's not invent things to criticize,
satisfying though that may be.