The left-leaning fact-checking website Snopes confirmed Saturday that former President Trump never called neo-Nazis “very fine people” during a press conference following the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.
Critics of Trump have long argued that after the incident he equated neo-Nazis with dissidents. President Biden has been leading the way among them, citing the incident as a key reason for launching his 2020 presidential campaign.
“Trump said that ‘there are very fine people on both sides,’ but clarified that he was not talking about neo-Nazis or white supremacists, who he said ‘should be completely condemned,’ so we’ve rated the claim ‘False,'” Snopes wrote.
Snopes’ fact check is consistent with longstanding claims by the Trump campaign, which has long maintained, with supporting transcripts and videos, that Trump’s comments were quoted out of context. The fact checker noted that the false claims about Trump’s comments “spread like wildfire” among the left and were eventually cited as a linchpin in Biden’s campaign.
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Left-leaning fact-checker Snopes confirmed on Saturday that former President Trump never called neo-Nazis “very fine people” during a press conference following the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. (Felipe Ramares for Fox News Digital)
When Biden released his 2020 campaign announcement video, the first words he uttered were “Charlottesville, Virginia.”
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“The president of the United States created moral parity between those who spread hate and those with the courage to stand up against it,” Biden said in the video, “and in that moment I knew the threat to this country was unlike anything I’d ever seen in my lifetime.”
Snopes’ fact check is consistent with longstanding claims by the Trump campaign, which has long maintained, with supporting transcripts and videos, that Trump’s comments were quoted out of context. The fact checker noted that the false claims about Trump’s comments “spread like wildfire” among the left and were eventually cited as a linchpin in Biden’s campaign.
The Snopes ruling removes a key piece of ammunition from Biden’s arsenal just days before the first debate between Biden and Trump scheduled for this week.
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The two are scheduled to face off in a CNN-hosted televised debate in Atlanta on Thursday.
Videgas and Trump will face off in a CNN-hosted televised debate in Atlanta on Thursday. (Left: (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Biden has been holed up at Camp David over the weekend preparing for the debate, while Trump continues to campaign before heading to Atlanta later this week.
