Full quote. Please note the bold part. This phrase has been twisted and used exhaustively as propaganda by the left. I understand that we have a ton of people not smart enough to understand that though.
"You also had some very fine people on both sides," Trump said in 2017. "You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. You had people -- and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists; they should be condemned totally -- you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists."
Your quote is not accurate.
He said the first part and then rambled on incoherently about George Washington being a slave owner. It was not until a reporter asked him to clarify what he said in the 1st part that he said the 2nd part.
So yes, he did clarify, but it was not until he was forced to by a reporter.
And cry me a river about politicians words being taken out of context. That is right out of yall's playbook.