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Trump's Charlottesville statement was repugnant — no matter how you parse it

By Jarvis DeBerry

Thanks to an uncharacteristically naive post from fact-checking website Snopes, gaslighter-in-chief Donald Trump is trying to convince the public that his response to Heather Heyer's 2017 murder in Charlottesville, Virginia, wasn't morally bankrupt.

Heyer was among a crowd of leftist counterprotesters opposing the Unite the Right rally, which was protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. James Alex Fields, who had a reported fascination with Hitler and Nazism, rammed his car into the counterprotesters, injuring more than 30 people and killing Heyer. Trump is citing Snopes to say that President Joe Biden and everybody else with common sense is misconstruing Trump's infamous statement that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the day's clashes.

This is a preview of Jarvis DeBerry's latest article. Read the full column here.

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