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Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign posted a debunked declare that former President Trump mentioned there have been “very fine people” on each side of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
“7 years ago today, white supremacists and neo-Nazis marched on Charlottesville, chanting racist and antisemitic bile and killing an innocent woman. This is who Donald Trump calls ‘very fine people,’” the Kamala HQ account posted on X together with a video.
Critics of Trump have claimed for years that he referred to as neo-Nazis “very fine people” when he was really speaking about individuals protesting over a Robert E. Lee statue, with President Biden and his allies within the mainstream media commonly pushing the notion.
But earlier this 12 months, left-leaning fact-checking web site Snopes acknowledged that Trump by no means referred to as neo-Nazis “very fine people” throughout his press convention following the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
FACT-CHECKER ADMITS TRUMP NEVER CALLED CHARLOTTESVILLE NEO-NAZIS ‘VERY FINE PEOPLE’ IN BLOW TO BIDEN
Left: Vice President Kamala Harris. Right: Former President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
“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. He said in the same statement he wasn’t talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be ‘condemned totally,'” Snopes wrote.
Snopes debunking the declare aligned with years of arguments from Trump’s camp, who lengthy acknowledged, backed by the transcript and video, that his feedback have been taken out of context. The fact-checker famous that the false declare about Trump’s feedback “spread like wildfire” on the left.
Snopes’ ruling was thought to take away key ammunition for anti-Trump pundits and politicians, however the Harris marketing campaign sparked backlash for utilizing it anyway.
“This is a hoax,” journalist Libby Emmons wrote. “You fell for a widely debunked hoax. Is that what fighting for the future looks like?”
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One particular person referred to as the declare the “hoax of the millennium,” whereas others pointed to Snopes and referred to as for X to hit the Harris marketing campaign with Community Notes.
Trump’s marketing campaign responded, writing, “A lie that has been so thoroughly and exhaustively debunked that repeating it insults the intelligence of the American people. Pretty much sums up Kamala’s campaign.”
The Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Many others responded on social media:
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Fresh News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
