Reporter : (Inaudible) “… both sides, sir. You said there was hatred, there was violence on both sides. Are the --”
Trump : “Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides – I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say.”
Reporter : “The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --”
Trump : “Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves – and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
Reporter : “George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same.”
Trump : “George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down – excuse me, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?”
So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people – and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists – because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
“Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets, and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other group.”
Trump : "No, no. There were people in that rally – and I looked the night before – if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people – neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.
"But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest – because, I don’t know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So I only tell you this: There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country – a horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country.
Her er litt mer kjøtt på bena til de som er interessert. “Fine people on both sides” problemet til MSM og venstresiden er bare tull, han har INGEN problem med å snakke negativt om rasistene, men han poengterer det var også fredlige protester på begge sider. Selv om Antifa (ulovlig protest) slost mot de som var bad guys fra høyresiden da.
Merkelig å skulle henge seg opp i at han sier det også var snille folk på begge sider, når venstresiden og MSM nå får demonstrasjoner som er helt forferdelige til å være “mostly peaceful” det blir jo enda verre. Dvs de sier noe fint om noe som også gikk galt eller som ikke var bra skjedde, det er det samme Trump gjør.