Maggie5
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You know it isn't always about 'sides'. What I was showing that I believe he did say and that the media concentrated on those words without clarification. What you are posting is that he was misquoted but you are wrong.Rewrite history? Did you actual read what you posted?
The first video in your link makes no mention of the now infamous "fine people on both sides" which is the misquote and lie I was disputing.
It does however show, as you quoted, that he comdemned “in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence — on many sides.”.
I am not sure how clarifying the above, which is pretty clear to begin with, in a second statement is "rewriting history" but the media running with the completely fictional narrative that he said "white nationalists are fine people" is given a pass.
Here is a good article.
Trump Didn't Call Neo-Nazis 'Fine People.' Here's Proof. | RealClearPolitics
News anchors and pundits have repeated lies about Donald Trump and race so often that some of these narratives seem true, even to Americans who embrace the fruits of the presidents policies. The...
www.realclearpolitics.com
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, 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 – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures 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.”
After another question at that press conference, Trump became even more explicit:
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
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