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In an Aug. 15 news conference, then- U.S. President Donald Trump famously said there were "very fine people on both sides" This response received widespread backlash; many claimed Trump had put neo- Nazis and counterprotesters on the "same moral plane" Trump 's supporters have consistently claimed that he actually condemned the neo-Nazi and white supremacists at the rally.
Trump: "There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country. A horrible moment," he said in a news conference in August 2017 .
We rated this claim "false" by fact-checking the claim that Trump refused to explicitly condemn white supremacists during the 2020 presidential debate.
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