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Trump supporters have spent the past few weeks trying to whitewash Trump’s ‘very fine people’ comment

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Donald Trump supporters have spent the past few weeks trying to whitewash comments the former president made in relation to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 .

In the past week , the Kamala Harris presidential campaign and President Joe Biden both highlighted Trump ’s “very fine people on both sides” comment.

Trump supporters in Silicon Valley and Wall Street have also tried to rewrite history.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman was among the very first to publicly endorse Trump in the hours after the shooting.

Ackman shared a post from anti-LGBTQ hate account Libs of TikTok to his 1.4 million followers last week .

The suggestion that the full, unedited video of Trump ’s comments has somehow been scrubbed from the internet over the past seven years is central to many of the claims being made in the past week .

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English

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possibly offensive

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