For years, leftwing media and social media accounts have repeated a lie, that former President Donald Trump said that there were sone “very fine people” who were neo-Nazis and white supremacists at a Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. Some leftist commentators at Must Read Alaska have even made the allegation.
Snopes, a leftist fact-checking website, has declared the rumor false.
“Trump did say there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn’t talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be ‘condemned totally,'” Snopes wrote.
The fake Trump’s comments, Snopes said, “spread like wildfire” and were repeated by President Joe Biden in his 2020 campaign.
