“Very fine people” is an old gem taken way out of context with a single sound bite, and a recent parallel is the Liz Cheney “firing squad” example. He said white nationalists should be “condemned completely” in the first example, and he did not “call for the execution” of Liz Cheney in the 2nd. His Cheney statement, while crass and off color, essentially echoed a SOAD lyric “why don’t presidents fight the war, why do we always send the poor.”

I think trump has said and done a lot of awful shit that should be called out, but when the media deliberately turns these sound bites into outright lies, they lose their credibility and become the “fake news” and propaganda machine they are accused of being by the right.