To be clear, there were/are good and fine people who seek to remove Confederate statues and who seek to keep them in place. That is what Trump alluded to and anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows that was the context of his remark. That said, Trump's response was slow and clumsy, but he did not say that there were fine neo-Nazis that day in C-ville.
Respect your opinion, but you're wrong about one key point. Trump stated, and then repeated, that there were "very fine people" at a rally the was organized, promoted and attended by white nationalists/supremacists from across the country. The organizer (Jason Kessler) is a Neo-Nazi and prominent member of the alt-right online community. ALL of the groups involved in promoting the rally were white nationalist/white supremacist/Neo-Nazi groups. There was NOT ONE group involved in the rally that was NOT a far-right wing, openly racist organization. They marches with signs that read "Jews will not replace us", "White Lives Matter", "Blood and Soil", "Long Live the White Knights". The flags they flew were those of the Nazis and the KKK and the Confederacy... not the American Flag.
So, I'm sorry, but when Trump stated there were "fine people on both sides", he was absolutely saying there were fine people in a rally created ENTIRELY by (and for) white supremacists. No amount of semantics can obscure that reality. And his response wasn't simply "clumsy". It was a blatantly false equivalence between racists...and those who oppose racism. And there is absolutely no equivalence between the two.
Trump went further to clarify and name by name, hate of all kind, neo-Nazis etc. and condemn them in no uncertain terms. Again, his delivery was less than perfect, but he in no way called white supremacists and neo-Nazis "very fine people".The context of that comment has been perverted by the MSM, Dems and all Trump's detractors to perpetuate a lie.
Sorry, you just cannot say that with any credibility. That's absolutely what Trump did. You cannot change his words. Neither can you pretend to know what he "really" meant. There was only one kind of person out there marching and chanting racist slogans, and holding up racist signs and symbols. And unless you can find some examples of non-racist organizations directly involved with the Tiki Torch carriers at that event....you need to stop pretending you understand the "context" when what you're really doing is projecting your feelings into Trump's head. The so-called "MSM" got it right. And, once again, you've placed yourself in the position of being an apologist for Trump's racism and bigotry.
The clincher with Biden's announcement is that he bases his premise that Trump is an anti-Semite upon the lie told about his statement about C-ville. It's intentionally deceiving and pathetically desperate to find some grounds on which to oppose Trump.
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That's silly...because it wasn't a lie. Unless, of course, we're talking about the alternative universe of right wing "news", where lies are facts and facts are lies. Is that what you meant? Because in the real world, most people have seen and read about the Unite the Right rally and tragedy. And the only people who still think like you are the blind Trump apologists and the racists/bigots among us.
Since Trump's election, we've seen the Left's antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiments revealed by Trump, not produced by Trump.
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Only certified wingnuts equate anti-semitism with opposition to ANY foreign policy issue related to Israel. The reason 70% of American Jewish voters oppose Trump is because they understand this, too.
