What Trump said, as transcribed by the Los Angeles Times:
“I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of [the people at the rally] were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, Robert E. Lee.”
A reporter yelled out, “Both sides, sir?”
Referring to the so-called “antifa,” which was also present at the rally wearing masks, throwing paint and spraying urine, Trump said, “Well, I do think there’s blame — yes, I think there’s blame on both sides.”
But Trump also said, “You have some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
He again specified that he was not referring to white supremacists, saying, “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”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-charlottesville-transcript-20170815-story.html
