The president isn't invoking the “very fine people on both sides” this time, but he is emphasizing his original defense of Confederate memorials. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Chet Strange/Getty Images When a combination of Confederate nostalgists and outright white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville in 2017 to maintain a statue of Robert E. Lee, President Trump embraced their cause. His statement, which contained a shocking defense of Nazis, was so disgraceful that several members of his administration could not hide their humiliation.
Trump’s allegedly correct claim, from August 2017 — comically recorded on the White House website, “Remarks by President Trump on Infrastructure” — went as follows: But they were there to protest — excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.
Trump was implying that anybody who supported removing Lee’s statues must support the removal of Washington’s and Jefferson’s. This prediction has proven false. While historians have no consensus, they have generally distinguished between different categories of figure, and drawing a line between traitors who fought for slavery and flawed heroes of American history has not proven impossible.
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