TRUMP
"You had very fine people on both sides... I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — they should be condemned totally."
The 'condemned totally' line was deleted from virtually every subsequent citation. Biden launched his 2020 campaign on the misquote. Snopes acknowledged the inaccuracy in 2024. What the misquote protected: the question of whether FBI informants were embedded in both the white nationalist groups and the counter-protest movements at Charlottesville was made radioactive by the false frame.