A USA today Fact Check referenced in my previous episode
A USA today Fact Check referenced in my previous episode. USAToday rates The claim: The media misquoted Trump's 'very fine people on both sides' statement about Charlottesville as Partly False. Does that mean mostly true?
Direct Quotes:
“A few days after the rally, Trump was asked by reporters about the protests, to which he responded that there were "very fine people on both sides."
However, some people say they believe Trump also condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis as part of his "very fine people" statement.”
"There were very fine people on both sides, & I'm not talking about the Neo-nazis and white supremacists because they should be condemned totally."
“In August 2017, white nationalists held a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in response to the city's decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.”
“After further questioning from the reporter, and responses from Trump about people who were at the Charlottesville rally to support keeping the Lee statue, the president said, "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."”
When former Vice President Joe Biden announced his candidacy for president in April 2019, he cited Trump's response to Charlottesville as a core reason behind why he chose to run.
"With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it," Biden said.
Biden then repeated the phrase in his answer: "A young woman got killed and when they asked the president what he thought he said there were very fine people on both sides."
Neither said directly that Trump referred to neo-Nazis as "very fine people."
The claims in the post have been rated PARTLY FALSE. Following the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Trump did say that there were "very fine people on both sides," when speaking about those who attended the rally in support, and those who demonstrated against it. But the meme misrepresents Trump's statements, because he did not say directly, "There were very fine people on both sides, & I'm not talking about the Neo-nazis and white supremacists because they should be condemned totally." The two statements were separate, the second part coming later, after further questioning from reporters. During the first presidential debate, both Wallace and Biden referenced Trump's "very fine people" comment but did not say he applied it to neo-Nazis.
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