It’s a simple and easily verifiable fact.
That’s Fake News. There were more than two groups. Conservatives came with a permit. The Left came without a permit, as did other extreme groups. Trump explained that and the press misquoted him, as you did above, to create a nothingburger. The whole transcript can be seen
here. Scroll down to see a small portion of the press conference – the part in question is in bold. Look at the entire conference, and if you see anything that he said that was wrong, point out which part you have a problem with.
Q Mr. President, are you putting what you’re calling the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral plane?
THE PRESIDENT: I’m not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I’m saying is this: You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs — and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side. You can call them the left — you just called them the left — that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.
Q (Inaudible) both sides, sir. You said there was hatred, there was violence on both sides. Are the —
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides — I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say.
Q The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest —
THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves — and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did.You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
Q George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same.
THE PRESIDENT: George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down — Excuse me, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?
Q I do love Thomas Jefferson.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now, are we going to take down his statue?
So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets, and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other group.
Fake News.
Fake News.
Fake News.
Fake News never looks good buddy.
Suffering a scourge like National Socialism doesn’t make people experts on political propaganda and Fake News, just as suffering cancer doesn’t make you an expert on cancer. Why do you think so many people go to faith healers or witchdoctors to cure it?
RobLarrikan said:
Yes, the habit of conservatives to shriek "fake" whenever they hear news they don't like does look particularly bad.
Oh, you mean the white supremacists. The people whose ideology calls for the murder of innocent people on the basis of race and religion, the domestic enemies of the constitution, the people who commit treason en masse and create terrorist groups to prevent Americans from exercising their constitutional rights, and who launched a terrorist attack at their own event when confronted by opposition.
Those conservatives.
I get that you and other anti Americans don't think it's a big deal that the president would try and excuse the actions of Neo-Nazis, but most people were, and with good reason.
He literally said that there were very fine Nazis. Case in ****ing point.
Nope, not "fake" in the slightest.
Nope, not "fake" in the slightest.
They certainly know more about the Nazis then whatever conservative partisan hack you read does.
Nope, white nationalists are overwhelmingly far right.
