Vice-Presidential Debate: Pence and Harris Claims Fact-Checked
8th October 2020
BBC does the work American ‘media’ won’t do.
Harris: “Trump said ‘there were fine people on both sides’ in far-right protests.”
Verdict: The quote is correct, but President Trump said in the same press conference that he wasn’t referring to neo-Nazis or white nationalists.
Kamala Harris brought up President Trump’s controversial comments following far-right protests in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. Violent clashes left one of the counter-protesters dead.
According to a transcript of a press conference on 15 August, President Trump did say – when asked about the presence of neo-Nazis at the rally – “you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
However, at the same press conference, Mr Trump went on to say “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.”
Not one American media outlet pointed out that this central claim of the Biden/Harris campaign is a barefaced lie.