JOE BIDEN/NEO-NAZIS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [4-26-19] defended his 2017 statement that there were ‘very fine people’ on both sides of the deadly white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Va., comments that recently came under fire again after former Vice President Joe Biden attacked Trump for them. When asked for clarification on his remark about the racially charged clash that left one person dead, Trump stood by his claim made more than 1½ years prior…The president has received repeated criticism from those arguing he offered moral equivalence between the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who incited the rally and those who protested against them. In the days following the deadly protests, Trump did not denounce the marchers, instead condemning violence on both sides and calling for Americans to ‘come together.’ At the 2017 rally, participants were protesting the planned removal of a statue of Lee, the head of the Confederate military during the Civil War. The tensions came to head when a man allegedly rammed his car into a group of protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.”
–Katie Galioto, “Trump says he answered Charlottesville questions ‘perfectly’,” Politico, April 26, 2019 10:27 am