Trump didn’t say he supported anything, but he did say that the locals had the right to determine whether or not statues should come down, and he is correct. He was correct. In the indoctrinated minds of the left, if I agreed with keeping the statue of Robert E. Lee up, I must be a white supremcist. The real problem is an intolerance by the left to even entertain ideas that oppose their teachings. Don’t agree with taking down a monument to a Confederate general, must be a racist. Don’t agree with allowing trans men to compete in women’s sports, must be a homophobe. The list goes on and on. Frankly, it is as testiment to lack of intellecutal curiosity of the average Democratic voter.
In addition to the infamous “fine people on both sides” line that was fed to the lemmings out there, he said the following. Now, put all of it together and clearly he was absolutely NOT referring to white nationalists as “fine people”. He was clearly referring to those that simply didn’t want the statue taken down.
So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets, and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other group.
Q Sir, I just didn’t understand what you were saying. You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? I just don’t understand what you were saying.
THE PRESIDENT: No, no. There were people in that rally — and I looked the night before — if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people — neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.
But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest — because I don’t know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So I only tell you this: There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country — a horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country.
