18) All of this, first of all, is factually false. The group that had a permit was Jason Kessler’s Unite the Right outfit, which in fact held a rally on Saturday, Aug. 17, to protest removal of the Lee monument, at which there was mass violence culminating in a murder.
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19) The Friday night march, however, had nothing to do with the Lee monument, other than it was planned to piggyback off of the UTR event. It was a march not to the monument park, but rather to the University of Virginia campus.
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20) This permitless march—with Tiki torches and “Jews Will Not Replace Us!” chants—was in fact organized by white nationalists: specifically, it was the brainchild of Richard Spencer. It was his idea for everyone to bring torches and to wear polos.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDF_GkNAYA&t=4s …
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21) Spencer’s whole purpose for this march, as he explained to participants at the time, was to transcend the whole issue of Confederate monuments. He told them he wanted it to be an announcement to the nation that white nationalism was here for real, and here to stay.
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22) Let’s also note that this was where the initial violence at Charlottesville occurred, and it was wholly one-sided: A small cluster of antifascists had gathered at the Jefferson monument on the campus, and the alt-righters brutalized them.https://www.propublica.org/article/48-hours-in-charlottesville …
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23) Perhaps the most generous interpretation of all this is that Trump was simply confused, and that he actually was trying to defend the people who came out the following day purely with the intention of defending their Confederate heritage, as they like to put it.
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24) Yet it’s inescapable that Trump specified the Friday march. And even if he was merely confused, he nonetheless was placing people who came out to defend their community from attacks such as those on Friday night on a plane with a horde of attacking neo-Nazis.
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25) So, no: It was not a “hoax” that Trump defended white nationalists at Charlottesville as “very fine people.” In the end, the only people who believe it’s a false claim are authoritarian personalities who believe any word out of the con man’s mouth.
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You have cognitive issues, I guess. I mean, I showed you his words praising the white nationalist march right there in black and white.
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For background, I interviewed several attendees who were "fine people," were not "marching with" anyone, disavowed the racists, and were there for their own pro-history/statue reasons. You were lied to by your silo-press.
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