The self-described “fact-checking” website Snopes finally corrected the record on one of the earliest and most infamous hoaxes against President Donald Trump, after seven years of the mainstream media twisting and spinning the original incident.
As reported by the Daily Caller, the website conceded that when President Trump delivered his remarks on August 15th, 2017, in the aftermath of a protest turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, he referred to “very fine people” on both sides of the protest. The mainstream media repeatedly and falsely claimed that he was describing neo-Nazis as “very fine people,” when in fact he declared in the same sentence that neo-Nazis and White supremacists should be “condemned totally.”
“In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ referring to the protesters and the counter-protesters,” Snopes admitted in its post. “He said in the same statement he wasn’t talking about neo-Nazis and White nationalists, who he said should be ‘condemned totally.’”