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> I looked up how he's actually associated with the Iron Guard, and it looks like he literally said that they 'also did “good deeds”' [1]. This is literally on

> I looked up how he's actually associated with the Iron Guard, and it looks like he literally said that they 'also did “good deeds”' [1]. This is literally on the level of "fine people" hoax that the mainstream media perpetrated against Trump! What hoax? https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/ https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trump...

TMWNN 2y ago
The hoax was and is that Trump called white supremacists "very fine people". As the transcript shows, that remark was specifically in regards to people disagreeing with the notion of removing statues of slaveholders and Confederates. Trump went on to say >And you had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally