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Snopes Finally Corrects The Record On Notorious Trump Hoax — Seven Years Later

Posted on AllSides June 24th, 2024
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Snopes, a fact-checking website, issued a correction for the infamous “very fine people” line Trump used, as well as had used against him — seven years later.

Trump delivered remarks at an Aug. 15, 2017 news conference following violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee the weekend prior. For years, Democrats latched onto a claim Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people” by taking Trump’s comments out of context.

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https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/23/snopes-correction-charlottesville-virginia-very-fine-people-both-sides-donald-trump-seven-years/

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