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On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:39:52 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>
>>It's seven years after the fact and the damage has long since been done, but
>>the left-wing fact checkers at Snopes have finally come out and admitted the
>>whole claim that Trump called neo-Nazis "very fine people" was a hoax. I have
>>no idea why, but credit where it's due, I suppose?
>
>>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
>
>Eh
>
>It's another example of the more Trump talked, the more he buried
>himself. There was no way for him to win. He should have ignored it, or
>limited his comments to condemning the murder.
>
>I don't put the "let's go beat up Nazis" counterprotestors on a high
>moral plane. As far as I could tell, the protestors on both sides had
>pretty low morals.
>
>I've personally objected to the removal of Civil War monuments making
>the generals god-like, but MY reason is rather different than the
>neo-Nazis: I don't think the modern generation should be re-writing
>history. A past generation erected those monuments and we need to look
>the ugliness of American history square in the face so we never forget
>that Civil War generals were honored by certain Americans for the modern
>politics of that era.
>
>I despite prettying up history. Trump was still wrong.

And yet the media line on this subject is FINALLY debunked and you
blame Trump.