You dug the rabbit hole my guy, with the inaccurate characterization of a statement made by Trump as you tried to debunk a Snopes fact check that sooooooo many left wing Journo’s agree with Snopes on.
I get it though. Things aren’t going well with Joe. It’s tough times
One last attempt before I go hug a child and garden:
It's a straight up fact that Donald Trump denounced the white supremacists at Charlottesville 48 hours after the event. Snopes had that right. It's a matter of record that he followed that up with the "fine people on both sides" statement that softened some of the condemnation. Snopes notes -- correctly -- that Trump once again denounced neo-Nazi's and white supremacists in that exchange, but people mostly seized on the "fine people" sentence to discount it. Was that unfair? Did it mischaracterize Donald Trump?
That same Snopes link has added a mea culpa that it was understood by all parties that the rally was organized and attended by prominent neo-Nazis and white supremacists, rendering Trump's "context" of peaceful folks who were simply appreciating Robert E. Lee a tad disingenuous. Trump ends by saying "so there are two sides to this country" as if that fact alleviates the concern.
So I'm not saying Snopes is wrong. I'm merely saying the reporters weren't either.
Because once you invite Nick Fuentes to dinner at Mar-a-Lago, that's the only f#&%ing context you need.
Reporter: Mr. President, are you putting what you're calling the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral plane?
Trump: I am not putting anybody on a moral plane, what I'm saying is this: You had a group on one side and a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and 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've 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.
Reporter: You said there was hatred and violence on both sides?
Trump: I do think there is blame — yes, I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, 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, and, and, and if you reported it accurately, you would say.
Reporter: The neo-Nazis started this thing. They showed up in Charlottesville.
Trump: 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 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. George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status, are we gonna take down — excuse me — are we gonna take down statues of George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay good. Are we gonna take down the statue? Cause he was a major slaveowner. Now are we gonna 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 the baseball bats, you got a lot of bad people in the other group too.
Reporter: I'm sorry sir, I didn't understand what you were saying, you were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? I don't understand what you're saying.
Trump: No, no. There were people in that rally — and I looked the night before — if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that group there was some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people. Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you wanna call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest — and very legally protest — because I don't know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit. So I only tell you this, there are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country. A horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country.
