It’s clear what Trump meant, and the media are deliberately lying about it. Of course to many in the media, being in favor of leaving a statue of Robert E. Lee in place is no better than being a neo-Nazi.
I don't know what "he meant" but I am crystal clear what he said. Not so sure why this is so difficult to repeat and illustrate what he actually said.
From the LA Times
Read the complete transcript of President Trump’s remarks at Trump Tower on Charlottesville
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…