We're just three days shy of the five-year anniversary of Joe Biden launching his 2020 presidential campaign off of the media-driven "very fine people on both sides" falsehood related to then-President Donald Trump's statement on the 2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right” rally that turned violent.
On April 25, 2019, Biden said in a pre-recorded video, "With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it."
“And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I’d ever seen in my lifetime," he also said, with Biden also referencing antisemitic chants that were heard during the rally.
As we noted after Biden's announcement, anyone who wasn't/isn’t suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome could see the “very fine people on both sides” remark was in reference to those who had legitimate arguments for or against the removal of Confederate War-era commemorative statues, not those in the crowd who were a part of any violent hate groups or movements.
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group," Trump said during a presser at the time. "But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. 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.”
Later during the same press conference, Trump emphasized the point.
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally," he stated.
Nevertheless, the lie persists, as evidenced by its revival in March after Trump's "bloodbath" comments were also taken out of context.
Yet nearly five years to the day Biden claimed Trump's "very fine people on both sides" Charlottesville comments inspired him to run for president, here we have President Joe Biden being asked about the antisemitic Columbia University protests being held by pro-Hamas students.
And what did he do? Morally equate the pro-Israel side to... the pro-Hamas side:
Reporter: "Do you condemn the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses?"
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 22, 2024
Biden: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I have set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians."
Reporter: "Should the… pic.twitter.com/bW5j9Nde0v
As others were quick to point out, this was an actual "very fine people on both sides" moment for Joe Biden:
https://t.co/ZkLGxGvUGg pic.twitter.com/PK2UdDU5c0
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 22, 2024
Biden's "very fine people" hoax is the whole reason he said he ran for President. Now he's the one actually doing it 🤡🤡🤡 https://t.co/lsiLkKm33Q
— Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) April 22, 2024
I eagerly await the media's hyperventilating over what Biden said in response to that question, but I won't hold my breath. Because as we all know, the left-wing media gonna media.
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