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Here's a response I received to my earlier tweet about @PolitiFact's uncharacteristically indecisive treatment of the Charlottesville hoax.
It echoes this piece from @BillKristol and @SykesCharlie's e-rag. The claim is that Trump was factually mistaken--that no one other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists was present in Charlottesville to oppose destroying the statues. thebulwark.com/the-charlottes…
There are two problems with this. First, it's a motte-and-bailey maneuver. "Trump made a factual error" is totally different from "Trump sympathizes with neo-Nazis." The latter is the claim Trump's detractors have made ad nauseam since 2017.
In this context, it is dishonest to press the former claim without acknowledging explicitly that it offers no support for the latter.
Second, the assertion that Trump made a factual error is dubious. Courtesy of @ScottAdamsSays, here is a New York Times report that backs the president up. nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/… 
To be sure, if the Bull Warks would like to dispute this by claiming that the NYT is fake news, I invite them to have at it. Pass the popcorn.
End of rant.
