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Rep. Sheila Jack­son Lee (D‑TX) attempt­ed to use the Char­lottesville “fine peo­ple hoax” to attack for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in a hear­ing on Wednes­day — and was fact-checked on the spot by Rep. Andy Big­gs (R‑AZ).
Lee repeat­ed the false claim, repeat­ed for years by Democ­rats and the media, that Trump had referred to vio­lent neo-Nazis and white suprema­cists in Char­lottesville, Vir­ginia, in August 2017 as “very fine peo­ple.” In fact, Trump said that the neo-Nazis and white suprema­cists should be “con­demned total­ly.” (In refer­ring to “very fine peo­ple on both sides,” he had been refer­ring to non-vio­lent demon­stra­tors on either side …