And it was branded as such long before it took place. The Unite the Right rally, which was scheduled to take place on August 12, 2017, was the most visible display of white nationalist and white supremacist hate en masse in the United States in years. What Trump should have known about Unite the Right So by casting the rally instead as a sort of spontaneous outpouring from Confederate statue enthusiasts, Trump is rewriting history. This was clear for months before the march actually occurred. Unite the Right was explicitly organized and branded as a far-right, racist, and white supremacist event by far-right racist white supremacists. Lee from a public square in Charlottesville, not the neo-Nazis and white nationalists who made up the bulk of the event’s attendees.Īs RealClearPolitics’ Steve Cortes argued, “Despite the clear evidence of Trump’s statements regarding Charlottesville, major media figures insist on spreading the calumny that Trump called neo-Nazis ‘fine people.’” These writers argue that Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” comments were meant to refer to the protesters in attendance who were attempting to stop the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Within the past few months, Dilbert creator Scott Adams, Morton Klein, head of Zionists of America, and writers for Breitbart and the Federalist have done the same, as the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer reported a few weeks ago. Trump isn’t alone in attempting to recast his “both sides” Charlottesville remarks his supporters are, too. A great general, whether you like it or not.” /fulPWpY4zC- POLITICO April 26, 2019 He said the was talking about people who “felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Trump defended his response to the violence in Charlottesville in 2017 when he said there were “very fine people on both sides.”
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