Trump: Charlottesville Nazi Rally Was A “Little Peanut”

Axios reports:

This is not the first time Trump has downplayed the severity of the Charlottesville rally, in which hundreds of white nationalists marched through the town’s streets and a driver plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one.

“We’re having protests all over,” Trump told reporters Thursday, referring to the pro-Palestinian and anti-war protests, while leaving court after another day in his New York hush money trial. “Charlottesville was a little peanut” and “nothing compared” to the “kind of hate that you have here,” Trump added.

Trump had previously faced enormous blowback for claiming that there were “very fine people” on “both sides” of the Charlottesville events.

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CNN: Trump just said the Charlottesville protest in 2017 was a ‘little peanut.’ Let’s remember the fact that a woman was murdered there in Charlottesville. Let’s remember there were neo-Nazis and other white nationalists there pic.twitter.com/eRoqQ3jcPV

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 25, 2024

Trump says neo-Nazis and KKK members marching in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not replace us” was “a little peanut”: “It was nothing” pic.twitter.com/zTTKECY4zr

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 25, 2024