For years, Democrats latched onto a claim Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists "Very fine people" by taking Trump's comments out of context.
Snopes set the record straight ahead of Thursday's 2024 presidential debate, acknowledging the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee said 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 counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be 'condemned totally,'" Snopes acknowledged.
In a full clip of the August 2017 exchange, Trump told a reporter he was "Not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists." Snopes also provided a transcription of the interaction in the piece.
Trump told the reporter Washington "Was a slave owner" and questioned if the first president should "Now lose his status." Trump criticized the idea of "Changing history" before going down a line of former presidents.
"I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally," Trump told the reporter.
To the backdrop of dramatic music, Biden said Trump was a "Threat to this nation" that was "Unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime." The Trump campaign called out the Biden campaign's use of the "Hoax" Sunday.
"The Charlottesville lie was another hoax perpetuated by the corrupt Democrats and their mouthpieces in the fake news media, just like the Hunter Biden laptop, the Russian collusion scandal and so many others, all in an attempt to smear President Trump. Joe Biden's campaign must end any advertising that pushes this lie because President Trump has, once again, been proven right," Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X.
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