Posted on 06/23/2024 4:19:12 PM PDT by grundle
Trump's remarks about the deadly Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in 2017 remain controversial.
Claim: On Aug. 15, 2017, then-President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists who attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, "very fine people."
Rating: False
Context
In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally."
(Excerpt) Read more at snopes.com ...
If only they’d have come out with this many years ago…
SNOPES telling the truth about Trump?!
My world view has been shattered.
It has to be a trick.
After all these years the media has just about milked everything they could from it, they took well over 2 years before they got around to debunking Palin’s “see Russia from my house”.
That's unusual.
Good to know... If Trump supports white supremacist and Nazi’s then he doesn’t deserve anybody’s vote.
Trump employs sarcasm a lot. So you have to learn how to interpret his off-the-cuff comments.
When he said they were “very nice people” he meant it sarcastically....
as if to say, “yeah sure, these scalawags are very nice people.”
Whenever Snopes finally get to telling the truth about things Trump said or did not say I usually suspect nefarious motives behind these occurrences.
Trump said this in an Hannity interview about Xi of China...
“You know when I say he’s brilliant, everyone says,’Oh, that’s terrible.’ Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist: smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy.”
They’re only doing it now because they have to. The evidence tearing down their falsehood is too prevalent for them to deny it anymore, and they’re now in a panic trying to salvage what little credibility they have, or perceive that they have.
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on” (attributed to many, including Twain and Churchill, but basically a recasting of similar adages through earlier history).
But at least we now know if takes the Snopes people about 7 years to get their boots on, which gives us a pretty good idea what they’re worth.
Snopes’ debunking of Charlottesville hoax shows Biden lied, says Trump campaign
‘The Charlottesville lie was another hoax perpetuated by the corrupt Democrats,’ says Trump spox Karoline Leavitt
By Emma Colton Fox Newshttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/snopes-debunking-charlottesville-hoax-shows-biden-lied-says-trump-campai
Up at Fox now
They’re like SPLC, ACLU, don’t need credibility (let alone integrity), never have, never will.
No he didn't - he wasn't even talking about them at all when the said that. He was talking about how there were "very fine people" on both sides of the debate as to whether or not the statues should come down.
Biden and the Demonrats will continue to tell the bald-faced lie anyway. “No joke.” “Seriously.” “No lie.” “The honest truth.”
Sure, Joey - liars have to add all of this verbiage to try to convince their victim(s) they are telling the truth.
It has to be a trick
I,too, smell a rat. 🐀
The days of campaigning are growing short.
SNOPES is probably trying to gain credibility with the common voter so that in the last few weeks they can pull out the stops and mislead people in the final days and not be shown to be liers until after the election.
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