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>I'm curious what you consider the "hoax" in "very fine people hoax". The idea that the POTUS just called racists who ran over and killed a woman "fine people"
by itsoktocry 6y ago
>I'm curious what you consider the "hoax" in "very fine people hoax".
The idea that the POTUS just called racists who ran over and killed a woman "fine people" is beyond reason.
A person with some objectivity can understand that Trump wasn't talking about white supremacists with his "fine people" statement. He was referring to there being "fine people on both sides" of the political spectrum, protesters and counter-protesters, at the protest. His point was that not all of those protesting the statue removal were white supremacists, some were "fine people". Of course, that's the story the left went with anyway, because Trump fumbled another one.
- notahacker 6y agoTrump started the interview by questioning the notion of the alt-right before pivoting to argue that the 'alt-left' started the violence and falsely claiming the counterprotestors didn't have permits, before adding his endorsement of the Robert E Lee statue cause. He pointedly hasn't taken a similar tack of emphasising the involvement of fine people as well as bad people with other protests involving some degree of violence, such as BLM. That's the context a person someone with some objectivity is putting it in, and it's difficult to argue with a straight face that there is no degree of truth to the media reporting it as Trump endorsing the march.