Quote (Thor123422 @ Sep 29 2020 11:23pm)
You should watch Trump's full comments across both days he spoke, and not just the August 16th comments.
August 11th was the literal Nazi rally where they chanted "jews will not replace us", organized by white supremacists, with only white supremacist speakers.
Trump refused to condemn white supremacists on his comments on the 12th and defended the protesters on the 11th (remember, these were literal white supremacists)
Over the next 3 days his own party, including Orrin Hatch and Marco Rubio, told Trump he needs to condemn white supremacists.
Then on August 16th Trump condemned white supremacists, but a bit after that he said there "were fine people on both sides".
The "fine people on both sides" was only seen as a walkback because he spent 3 days refusing to condemn white supremacists, and then when he did condemn them he immediately followed it up with "fine people on both sides".
So you're right that he technically did condemn white supremacists, but it was only after 3 days of pressure from his own party and it was shortly followed by a "both sides" comment.
and he said he waited because he wanted to get the facts straight, find out who was there etc. being that he did solidly condemn them "and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally." that does seem reasonable. its cherry-picking to try to make his statement about fine people out to be about white supremacists when he explicitly said the opposite. there was no ambiguity there, he said that they should be "condemned totally".
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