Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign posted a claim, denied as false, that former President Trump said there were “very fine people” on both sides of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
“Seven years ago today, white supremacists and neo-Nazis marched into Charlottesville, shouting racist and anti-Semitic slurs and murdering an innocent woman. These are the people Donald Trump calls ‘very fine people,'” Kamala HQ account posted on X along with the video.
Critics of President Trump have long argued that when he called neo-Nazis “very fine people,” he was actually referring to those protesting the Robert E. Lee statue, a notion that President Biden and his allies in the mainstream media regularly promote.
But earlier this year, the left-leaning fact-checking website Snopes confirmed that Trump never called neo-Nazis “very fine people” during a press conference following the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.
Fact checker acknowledges Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ in blowback against Biden
Left: Vice President Kamala Harris. Right: Former President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images/Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
“At a press conference after a rally against plans to remove Confederate statues, Trump said of protesters and counter-protesters that ‘there are very fine people on both sides.’ In his statement, he made no mention of neo-Nazis or white supremacists, whom he said ‘are completely condemnable,'” Snopes reported. Written.
Snopes’ denial of the allegations is consistent with the Trump campaign’s long-standing argument, which has backed up with transcripts and videos, that Trump’s comments were taken out of context. Snopes noted that false claims about Trump’s comments “spread like wildfire” among the left.
The Snopes ruling was seen as depriving anti-Trump pundits and politicians of a key ammunition, but the Harris campaign drew backlash for using it.
“This is a hoax,” says journalist Libby Emmons Written“You were fooled by a widely debunked hoax. Is that what it means to fight for the future?”
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One person called the allegations a “millennial hoax,” while another singled out Snopes and called on Company X to attack the Harris campaign in Community Notes.
Trump’s election campaign Responded“This lie has been thoroughly debunked and to repeat it is an insult to the intelligence of the American people. It pretty much sums up Kamala’s campaign,” he wrote.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Many others reacted on social media.
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Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
