Kellyanne Conway said Trump had 'condemned white nationalism' right after the 2017 attacks in Charlottesville, Va.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Sunday said President Donald Trump had "condemned white nationalism" right after the 2017 attacks in Charlottesville, Va., claiming his words have been distorted over the past two years by political opponents.
Trump was widely lambasted for remarks there were "very fine people on both sides" during the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, where participants had chanted phrases like "Jews will not replace us.
When he said there were "very fine people on both sides," Trump "was talking about the debate over removing statues," Conway said. "He was not talking about the weekend at all." "If you continue the sentence, he says people were there who had not signed up with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who were there about a park being renamed and a statue being taken down," she said, referring to a debate over a monument dedicated to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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