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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Trump On Charlottesville: "Very Fine People" (2017) [Archive Favorite]
Description: It's August 15th. This day in 2017, President Donald Trump gave a press conference in which he offered remarks about the violence that took place in Charlottesville, VA a couple days before.Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss the roots of the white supremacist rallies and violence in Charlottesville, as well as Trump's comments that there were "very fine people on both sides." Those comments have since been contested and decontextualized by his supporters.If you want a deeper dive on the Unite The Right rally, check out Niki's six-part podcast A12.Don't forget to...