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Originally Posted by psyang
To me, what Trump seemed to say was that there were good people protesting against the removal of Lee's statue who were not neo-nazis/white supremacists.
Tapper said that Trump said there were good people amongst the neo-nazis/white supremacists.
CHL pointed out that Tapper misquoted Trump. I agree.
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Like I said in my earlier post though, this was not a statue removal protest. I live in this area, and it has been advertised and promoted as a alt-right/neo-nazi/white supremacist rally with the focal point being the removal of the statue.
So even take what Trump is saying with a grain of seriousness, he is claiming that there were some people who showed up for the white supremacist rally just because they were also in favour of keeping the statue. That' nonsense. What's next saying there were fine people in the KKK rally a few weeks earlier who just signed up because they like the hats?
Is the point that Trump is delusional/naive/in denial and really had no idea what this was about, and he thinks this protest was filled with non (alt-right/Nazi/White Nationionalist-Supremacists) who's peaceful protest was ruined by the before mentioned groups? I personally got from his speech is that there are good people in the (alt-right/Nazi/White Nationionalist-Supremacists) group and that I guess he thinks there are some alt-right identifiers that aren't extreme racists. If I'm correct in that assumption, then I think what Tapper said was accurate, if not then I guess you guys are right and the narrative should be that Trump mistakenly believes there were good people who showed up to the white supremacist rally for reasons other than being racists.