(September 7, 2021 at 11:55 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(September 7, 2021 at 11:25 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I don't believe Trump was referring to the tiki torch rally when he said there were fine people on both sides. He disavowed white supremacy, and like the guy in the video said, sure, the news reported on that, but people like Don Lemon have played that clip of Trump's over and over 100 times, and every time they play it now, they exclude the part about him saying he doesn't mean the white supremacists or neo nazis.
Here's a transcript of the press conference in question, and here are the remarks specifically (one annotation by me in italics, and bold to emphasise the point is also mine):
Donald Trump Wrote:: "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. (Note by Rye: the torch rally was an impromptu demonstration and, as a result, they did not, in fact, have a permit to hold the torch rally.) 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.
He literally referred to the Tiki Torch Rally when asked to explain who the "fine people" were. And, if there were innocent people protesting in good faith, they must have been so quiet that they might not as well have been there.
If he was talking about the tiki torch rally, then I misunderstood and I would withdraw my comments I made about that. The tiki torchers were certainly partaking in something that seemed pretty messed up and ugly. I was under the impression Trump was referring to the day time, especially when he said both sides were to blame, because during the hours of the day we saw much violence coming from both sides, and of course the one lady was killed after being run down by the car. And why does the media continue to selectively edit the clip so they edit out the part where he says not the white supremacist or neo nazis? If he was clearly talking about them in the first place, then the media should just play the full clip and explain how Trump is being dishonest. The media are making themselves look untrustworthy with their selective editing, and that kind of dishonest nonsense is why Trump's fanbase rightly said, the media are liars and we're not going to trust them, but they went the opposite way and decided to trust everything Trump said.
