Trump Is Being Misquoted

 There's this debate raging, about whether Donald Trump once said white supremacists are "very fine people."

   Very fine people, then? Did Trump really say that?

   It was 2017. Trump made his comments following a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue -- a protest that attracted counter protestors. If this is quoted correctly, Trump said,  "There were very fine people on both sides, and I'm not talking about the Neo-nazis and white supremacists because they should be condemned totally."

   Trump later explained that he understood there were those there who were not Neo-Nazis, not white supremacists, but who were there just in opposition to the statue being removed. Others, however, argue that no one was there except the Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. They organized the rally and it was only they who participated.

   Joe Biden says Trump's comments prompted him to run for president, not wanting a bigot like Trump to occupy the White House.

   Snopes, in its fact-check, absolves Trump. "No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People'" says the Snopes headline.

CNN's Elle Reeve sides with those who insist Trump did, indeed, call the white supremacists "very fine people. "The 'hoax' claim is based on the idea Trump was right that there were some normal non-white nationalist people involved in Unite the Right. There weren't. It was conceived of by white nationalists at a white nationalist event 3 months earlier," she argues. I think I side with Snopes on this one.