He never called NAZI white Supremacists 'good people'".
Right, he didn’t.
Should be "the tRumpling's 10,000th attempt to spin dOnald's support for white supremacists".
How is this spin?
Lol, we all know what was said. Myself and many others watched it live. That's why it's so damn funny when you dingbats try to spin it.
He was clearly NOT referring to new-nazis or ANTIFA as “good people”. Maybe you missed the entire speech and only heard the cherry picked statement? There is no real other explanation for thinking he meant this.
Here is the exchange in question. I have highlighted the most relevant parts.
Reporter: "The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --"
Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me.
They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did.
You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name."
Reporter: "George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same."
Trump: "George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down -- excuse me, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?"
Reporter: "I do love Thomas Jefferson."
Trump: "Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now, are we going to take down his statue?
"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."
Reporter: "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."
Trump: "
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.
Either you are just plain dumb or have been misled. He couldn’t have been more clear. The reporter was phishing for something. The reporter knew exactly what he was saying. Just because someone is there to support keeping a statue doesn’t make them a neo-Nazi.
Let’s look at it another way. Trump said there were fine people on
both sides. I think we are all certain Trump was NOT referring to ANTIFA as fine people. Logic should dictate that he recognized that there were other people on the left that were there that were NOT in ANTIFA. Likewise, he recognized there were people on the right there were NOT new-Nazis.
