13 Jan 2020 6:20 pm
That was the clean up quote.Termin8tor » 13 Jan 2020 12:21 pm » wrote:You're lying. Here's the full quote.Misty » 13 Jan 2020 12:18 pm » wrote:He said there were 'very fine people' on both sides.Termin8tor » 13 Jan 2020 11:52 am » wrote:Why don't you set a good example and admit that you lied when you accused him of praising the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, psycho?
There were NO 'very fine people' marching with the Neo-Nazis.
TRUMP: OK. 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. OK? 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’ve got — you had a lot of bad — you had a lot of bad people in the other group…
He said nothing about the statue in his original remarks.
And the majority of the country agrees with me.
Trump tries to re-write his own history on Charlottesville and ‘both sides’In the days after the rally, during which one self-professed white nationalist killed anti-racism protester Heather Heyer with his vehicle, Trump said:
"You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."
Many Americans disagreed with the president’s apparent affirmation of some of the self-proclaimed white nationalists.
And he hit some of his lowest approval numbers after sympathizing with the self-professed white nationalists who marched to protect memorials built to honor Confederate soldiers who fought to keep black people enslaved.
Nearly 6 in 10 voters say Trump has encouraged white supremacists, according to a Quinnipiac poll.
Most Americans — 56 percent — viewed his response negatively, according to a Washington Post-ABC News survey.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... residency/