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Faith writes:What is with you idiots that you have to make such nitpicking distinctions and call people names who make understandable mistakes about them?

Faith writes:THERE WERE NON WHITE SUPERMACISTS THERE PROTESTING TOO YOU LYIBG CREEP AND TRUMP WAS VERY VERY CLEAR HE WAS REFERRING TO THEM YOU EVIL LYING CREEP.

Faith writes:Liar. Evil lying leftist creep. The Left came there without a permit and contributed to the violence you evil lying Leftist creep. Liar, idiot, creep, liar liar liar.
WHAT TRUMP SAID WAS VERY CLEAR AND VERY REJECTING OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS YOU LYING LEFTIST CREEP.

Stile writes:Seems to me like your best avenue is more along the lines of:"Sorry, Trump is an imbecile. In his reflexive attempt to fight against The Left, he accidentally sided with white supremacists. However, I assure you that this is entirely due to Trump's low intelligence and inability to think a step ahead about what he's actually saying. It doesn't actually mean he thought about siding with white supremacists - mostly because Trump rarely thinks. He generally simply reacts. Like a brainless, thoughtless, exposed nerve."

When asked by reporters on Friday if he stood by the comments, Trump responded: “I’ve answered that question and if you look at what I said you will see that that question was answered perfectly, and I was talking about people that went [to the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally] because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great [Confederate] general.”

Unite the Right was explicitly organized and branded as a far-right, racist, and white supremacist event by far-right racist white supremacists. This was clear for months before the march actually occurred. So by casting the rally instead as a sort of spontaneous outpouring from Confederate statue enthusiasts, Trump is rewriting history.

So by August 2017, when the Unite the Right rally was scheduled to take place, it was fairly clear that the organizers behind the rallies on behalf of keeping the Lee statue in place had a very specific ideological bent. That was clear in a police affidavit detailing who was expected at Unite the Right ” including roughly 250 to 500 Klansmen and more than 150 “Alt-Knights,” the military division of the Proud Boys.

In fact, going back through the promotional materials for Unite the Right, it is fascinating just how little the statue of Lee, or honoring Confederate veterans, seemed to matter to the organizers and attendees of Unite the Right, an event that, despite its name, had nothing to do with conservatism writ large.

The attendees of Unite the Right were crystal clear as to what the event was supposed to be ” not a show of support for history, but a “pro-white” activist event. Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin described the upcoming Unite the Right rally as in a post on the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer on August 8, 2017:

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Although the rally was initially planned in support of the Lee Monument, which the Jew Mayor and his Negroid Deputy have marked for destruction, it has become something much bigger than that. It is now an historic rally, which will serve as a rallying point and battle cry for the rising Alt-Right movement.

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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.

No, no. There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before. If you look, they were people protesting very quietly, the taking down the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day, it looked like they had some rough, bad people, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call ’em. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest

We also have the transcript and video of how Trump responded. He did, indeed, refer to the people who attended Unite the Right, people who were likely well aware of and supportive of its messaging, as “very fine people,” and he downplayed the tiki torch parade as “people protesting very quietly.”

At least two times, and in context more times than that, on that video I posted HE CONDEMNED WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND NEO NAZIS.

THE FACT IS THAT HE SAID NOTHING IN SUPPORT OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS BUT CONDEMNED THEM.

YOU BLITHERING IDIOTS.