Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday used the now-debunked “very fine people” myth to falsely claim that President Donald Trump praised white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville when in fact he condemned them.
The claim was made by the X/Twitter account of Kamala Harris’ official presidential campaign “rapid response” team.
Seven years ago today, white supremacists and neo-Nazis marched into Charlottesville, shouting racist and anti-Semitic slurs and murdering an innocent woman.
The people Donald Trump calls “very fine people” pic.twitter.com/FfHJhWVR9B
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 12, 2024
Snopes.com formally denied the allegations in June, seven years after the incident occurred.
But Harris denied it. On her face She tried to use it against Trump during the 2020 vice presidential debate but was confronted with the facts.
The fact is that Trump was praising nonviolent participants on both sides of the statue debate. He contrasted their actions with those of the violent neo-Nazis and Antifa activists who gathered in Charlottesville and fought each other.
Breitbart News confronted then-candidate Joe Biden, who ran on the hoax in 2019, with the facts, to no avail.
Biden repeated the hoax this weekend, said Trump boldly encouraged the Ku Klux Klan to show up without hoods.
Not only has Harris lied about the “very fine people” fiction, she has also been reluctant to condemn the anti-Semitic violence that has swept across the country since October 7, and recently said she supports the “sentiment” of the protests.
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