Fact-check: “There are good people on both sides.”
Verdict: Unverifiable (78% confidence)
Documented transcripts show that then-President Donald Trump stated a closely related formulation—“very fine people, on both sides”—on August 15, 2017, in remarks about the Charlottesville protests, and he also stated he was “not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists” and that they “should be condemned totally.” However, the claim as written (“good people on both sides”) is a vague, context-free moral generalization; documented sources do not provide an objective, testable stan…
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