The neo-Nazis marching around at night was a subset of the people who showed up for the day time protest. Now which of those events - the tiki torch march the preceding night or the day time protest turned violent - was Trump asked about? The latter. But the media instead shows images of neo-Nazis with tiki torches shouting about Jews and then accuse Trump of calling neo-Nazis fine people.
You're trying to say the media is cherry picking to make Trump look bad. This is wrong. For one, showing images of the Unite the Righters marching on the UVA lawn is not cherry picking, it's showing a big piece of what happened that weekend. The two days were barely separate events. They were a few miles from each other, separated by less than 12 hours, organized by the same people, and represented the same cause, which you call neo-Nazism. Yes, the tikki torch guys were a subset, but a large and representative subset, considering a big chunk (roughly 200) of the ~500 Unite the Righters were on the UVA lawn on the 11th, including the organizers of Unite the Right. Two, no one is actually cherry picking in this way. Everyone
also always shows images of the Unite the Righters in/around Emancipation Park. Watch Biden's video and keep your eyes peeled for swastikas. Watch the news or BlacKKKlansman and keep your eyes peeled for a gray Dodge Charger. The media isn't instead showing the 11th, they show both days. Three, Trump also defended the tikki torch guys in that same press conference: "
There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before. If you look, they were people protesting very quietly, the taking down the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones." Four, you're holding onto the belief a bunch of relatively innocuous traditionalists showed up just because they had a soft spot for old Bobby Lee or thought TJ statues would come down next. That's not what happened. The vast majority really were overt white supremacists, affiliated with white supremacist groups, and organized in Spencer and Kessler's Discord channels. And for any hypothetical fine people who were there, you really have to question if they were in fact very fine people given who they were with.
Is it fair when Fox News and right wing blogs et al smear left wing protesters by blaming them for rioters and looters who show up at their protests? Left wing politicians go on TV to tell us it isn't fair to blame protesters when violence erupts.
A better comparison would be if some protest organized and they stood for nothing and all they did was destroy crap. And then we hypothesize there existed a few decent chaps in their ranks and become indignant at the cruel double standards.
This notion Trump with an orthodox Jewish son-in-law thinks neo-Nazis are fine people defies logic.
Well, if you don't accept racism motivated his comments, then you have to accept he had an easy way out and he squandered it out of stupidity and immaturity. Regardless, the ability of our president to see and express crucial moral distinctions matters.
