The LIE was in the press for weeks, but that is because the press has a propensity to lie when it helps Democrats narratives. It could be argued that CNN, MSNBC and the major city Newspapers primary duty, as they see it, is to build narratives for the Democrats.
In the very same speech Trump stated
quite clearly that he was not talking about the Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists and that those groups should be totally condemned.
But you read the lies that conveniently clipped that part out.
Just before the "Very Fine People" statement.... (
transcript)
Q: Do you think what you call the alt left is the same as neo-Nazis?
Trump: All of those people -- i've condemned neo-Nazis. I've condemned many different groups. Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, Robert E. Lee.
And then after the "Very Fine People" statement.... in the very same Q&A:
You had people and i'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists. They should be condemned totally. You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. The press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
And yet you allowed yourself to be lied to because those in the press knew that most anti-Trumpers would not bother checking the work of a media that was selling the narrative.
They played to the fools. I'd suggest that you stop being one.
