Why does he refuse to condemn them?

[*PhilHos*]

(09-30-2020, 12:41 PM)Dill Wrote: If I am a president accused of sympathy for white supremacists, and I am still trying to put behind me an incident in which I “misspoke” about good people on both sides of a racial conflict, 

Trump didn't misspeak. His words were twisted into something that he didn't say.

Quote: Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo — and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. …

It’s fine, you’re changing history, you’re changing culture, and you had people – and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats – you had a lot of bad people in the other group too.

Anyone that hears or reads that and thinks he's saying there were fine white supremacists is clearly making shit up.