| | | Or else they weren't very "fine people".
I note that you recognized that I declined to opine that the statue-huggers were fine people and was only saying that they were the cohort that Trump referred to as fine people. That he so considers them is supported by him being out there ever since loudly defending the statues and those who defend the statues.
But it doesn't really matter to the question on the table whether they're fine people or not. The critical element is that Trump, in that same statement, called the slogan-yellers "rough, bad people." IMO, he probably said that not because he thought so but because he was told by his handlers that he had to. There were even comments from neo-Nazis at the time expressing that they understood that he had to denounce them but they still knew that he was with them. Sort of a reverse dog whistle.
What matters to the question on the table, instead, is that Trump did not refer to neo-Nazis as fine people in that statement, as claimed. Indeed, he called them "rough, bad people." Asserting that claim is asserting an untruth.
The thing about quotes is that statements executed become hard facts, facts that are verifiable. One can opine and interpret and spin all one chooses. But one is not operating in good faith if one asserts that Trump said something not in the transcript. And one can't expect to not be fairly called on it. |
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