During Thursday’s political argument, Biden accused Trump of calling neo- Nazis “very good people”, repeating a extended- debunked claim regarding Trump’s remarks following a light supremacist rally in Charlottesville.  ,
“]Trump ] said,’ I think there are good people on both sides,'” Biden claimed at Thursday’s conversation. ” What American leader would always say Germans coming out of fields carrying torches, saying the same racist bile, carrying symbols, are fine individuals”?
Trump’s comments follow a 2017 Charlottesville march that involved protests and counterprotests over the removal of a Robert E. Lee monument from a area, according to Biden’s state. One fatality and 19 injuries were suffered in the violent end of a self-declared” light nationalist” who drove his vehicle into the crowd.  ,
With the help of commercial media, the state that Trump called nova- Nazis “very good people” spread soon after the events, despite Trump condemning them openly.  ,
Trump criticized the Charlottesville activists and counter-protesters in a press conference days after the events, saying,” But you also had people that were very good citizens, on both sides.” ” I’m never talking about the nova- Germans and the bright nationalists, because they should be condemned absolutely”.
This assertion has recently been a cornerstone of Biden’s campaign, both in his acceptance speech and in an advertisement for the 2020 Democratic presidential election.
But, the claim has been truth- checked by several sources.  ,  ,
CNN host Jake Tapper, who served as a facilitator for the discussion, recently debunked the state. He clarified Trump was referring to various activists.
” Now elsewhere, in those remarks ,]Trump ] did condemn neo- Nazis and white supremacists”, Tapper said in a 2019 CNN clip. ” So he’s not saying that the nova- Germans and white racists are very good people” . ,
Snopes responded to Biden’s comments last week by grading them as “false” seven years after the business press ran wild with the false state.
” 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”, added Snopes writer Taija PerryCook. ” He said in the same declaration he was n’t talking about neo- Nazis and light nationalists, who he said if be’ condemned entirely.'”
Biden was not fact-checked by either facilitator during the discussion.
Monroe Harless is a summertime volunteer at The Federalist. She recently received degrees in media and social science from the University of Georgia.
