Did trump call white supremacist very fine people
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Executive summary
President Trump said after the deadly 2017 Charlottesville clashes that “you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides,” a formulation that many outlets and fact-checkers say suggested moral equivalence between white supremacists and counterprotesters [1] [2] [3]. Some defenders note Trump separately condemned neo‑Nazis and white nationalists in the same remarks and in later statements [2] [4].
1. What he actually said — the quoted line and its context
At an Aug. 15, 2017 news conference about the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Trump said: “you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both