Trump says very fine people on both sides after Charlottesville neo-Nazi violence

At a Trump Tower press conference three days after neo-Nazis and white supremacists killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump reversed his August 14 condemnation and said: "You also had people that were very fine people, on both sides." James Alex Fields Jr., a self-identified white supremacist, had driven his car into a crowd of counterprotesters on August 12, killing Heyer and injuring 19 others. Trump also attacked the "alt-left" and defended Confederate statue protesters as "very fine people." Republican senators including Bob Corker and Lindsey Graham condemned the remarks. Trump created a moral equivalence between neo-Nazis and those opposing them — a position he later doubled down on.