...Trump's defenders have seized on that line to argue that it's false to say Trump praised white supremacists. But that requires a willful ignorance of who organized the rally and who attended it. Unite the Right was not some spontaneous demonstration, nor was it a big-tent gathering meant to rope in a broad coalition. It was plainly advertised as a white supremacist rally, by and for neo-Nazis. It was supposed to be menacing. And it was the only rally in Charlottesville that day (other than the counterprotests). There was no second group. The Washington Post's fact-checker noted that "The 207-page independent review commissioned by Charlottesville…makes no mention of peaceful pro-statue demonstrators."
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