Some of Donald Trump’s biggest and newest supporters from finance and Silicon Valley, including Elon Musk and Bill Ackman, have spent the past several weeks trying to whitewash comments the former president and current Republican presidential nominee made in relation to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
In the past week, the Kamala Harris presidential campaign and President Joe Biden both highlighted Trumpâs August 15, 2017 comment, when the former president said there were âvery fine people on both sidesâ of the clashes that followed the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.
For years, Trump supporters have defended his comments, claiming he was speaking about a nonexistent group of nonracist rallygoers who were there just to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
While Trump did condemn the white supremacists and neo-Nazis…
