Its worse than that.
They are using his saying that there were good people on each side (bad idea) and his equating the Antifa/BLM with the racist groups was him telling them that he is really still behind them and he just attacked them to appease the media.
They are also saying the standard: that Trump's voting fraud (aka by them as voter suppression) and anti-immigrant(aka by us as illegal) policies are policies to appease the KKK groups.
If you oppose tearing down statues related to the confederacy for any reason you are NOW a racist.
Worse? In the sense that their claim is predictable and dumb. But with all those pathetic GOP characters scared sh**less of being called racist or fascist, it has already slowed Trump down. This probably won't amount to much in a few days, but it was avoidable.
And again, the "sides" you refer to were manufactured and manipulated to produce violence. In a strange way, cnn and msdnc are right when they say "There is no other side." Unfortunately, Trump already has used the "sides" narrative, so it's hard to change horses. Somebody else, maybe the DOJ, needs to talk about the unite-the-right "leader."