Okay. I finally just read the text of what Trump said about Charlottsville....

... and in a vacuum, where there wasn't already existing righteous indignation by a press and politician looking for ANYTHING to bring down this president, nothing he said was anything but the truth.

The problem is, truth is being swept under the rug and lies are being propagated. I went back and read it, only this time I read in in the voice of Barack Obama. So, I made a few minor and subtle changes to his statement and news conference and now, you can read this, as if it were an Obama press conference:

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REPORTER: Why are the CEOs leaving your manufacturing council?

OBAMA: It’s because they are not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country. We want jobs and manufacturing in this country, and companies paying a fair tax is not something many CEOs want to discuss. If you, uh, look at some of those people that you are talking about, they are manufacturing outside of this country. They are having a lot of their products made outside. If you uh, look at Merck as an example, take a look where – excuse me, excuse me – take a look at where their product is made. It is made outside of our country. We. Want. Products. Made in this, uh country. Now, I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave, they’re leaving out of their own embarrassment, because, uh, because they made their products outside of this country, and I have been lecturing them. Including the gentleman that you are referring to, about, uh, how you have to bring it back to this country. You can't do it necessarily in Ireland and all of these other places. You have to bring this work back to this country. That's what I want. That's what the American people want. I want manufacturing to be back into the United States so that middle and lower class American workers can benefit.

REPORTER: Why did you wait so long to denounce Neo-Nazis?

OBAMA: I didn't wait long. I wanted to make sure, uh, unlike most politicians, that, uh, what I said was correct, not make a quick statement. The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement, but you don't make statements that are that direct unless you know all the facts. And I promise you, it takes a little while to get all the facts. YOU still don't know the facts. And it is a very important process to me. It is a very important statement. So I didn't just want to go quickly and make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. I wanted to know the facts. If you, uh, go back to my statement, in fact, I brought it.
As I said on… remember this, Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. It. Has. No. Place. In. America. And then I went on from there. Now here is the thing. Excuse me, excuse me. Take it nice and easy. Here is the, uh, thing. When I make a statement, I prefer it to be correct. I want the facts. You want the facts. This event had just happened. A lot of this was still fluid as portions of the event hadn't happened yet as I was speaking. This event had just happened. Before I, uh, make a statement, I need the facts, so I don't want to rush into a statement. In fact, the young woman, who I hear was a fantastic young woman, and it was on NBC, her mother wrote me and said through I guess Twitter, social media, the nicest things, and I very much appreciated that. I hear she was, uh, a fine, really, uh, actually an incredible young woman, but, uh, her mother on Twitter, thanked me for what I said.

REPORTERS NODDING IN AGREEMENT

OBAMA: They didn’t. They don’t.

REPORTERS CONTINUE NODDING IN AGREEMENT

OBAMA: How about, how about a couple of infrastructure questions.

REPORTER: Was that terrorism? Sorry, not an infrastructure question. *laughs*

OBAMA: Say it, what?

REPORTER: The CEO of Walmart said you missed a critical opportunity to help bring the country together. Did you?

OBAMA: Is nobody interested in infrastructure? *smiles broadly* Okay. To answer you, not at all. I think the country -- look, YOU take a closer look. I've created over a million jobs since I have been president. The economy is booming, the stock market is, uh, setting new records. We have the highest employment numbers we’ve ever had in the history of our country. We are creating record business. We have the highest levels of consumer enthusiasm. So the head of Walmart, who I know, who’s a very nice guy, was making a political statement, not a statement about the state of our economy, which is, uh, very robust, and headed in the right direction. I mean, uh, I would do it again the same way. You know why? Because, uh, I wanted to make sure that when I make a statement to all of you, and the American people, that the statement is correct. And there was no way – no way – of this office making a correct statement that early. I had to, uh, see the facts, unlike a lot of reporters who seem to know everything.

REPORTERS SHUFFLE THEIR FEET AND GRUDGINGLY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS

OBAMA: I didn't know David Duke was there. I wanted to see the facts. And the facts, as they, uh, started coming out, were, I thought..... very well-stated. In fact, everybody in this room said this statement was beautiful. If I could have made it sooner, that would have been good, but, uh, I couldn't have made it sooner, because I, uh, because I didn't know all of the facts. Frankly, people still don't know all of the facts, except reporters. *smiles broadly* It was very important – excuse me, excuse me. It was very important to me to get the facts out correctly. Because if I, uh, if I would have made a fast statement... then the first statement would have been made without knowing much other than what we were seeing, which was still in motion. The second statement, however, was, uh, was made after the first statement with knowledge, with greater knowledge of the events that actually transpired. There are still things – excuse me - there are still things that we don't know. I wanted to make a statement with knowledge. I wanted to know, uh, the facts, okay?

REPORTERS NODDING THEIR HEADS IN AGREEMENT

REPORTER: Two questions: was this terrorism? And can you tell us how you are feeling about your Chief Strategist David Axelrod?

OBAMA: I think the driver of the car is possibly a disgrace to himself, his family and this country. And that is – you can call it terrorism, you can call it murder. You can call it whatever you want. I would just call it as the fastest one to come up with a good verdict. That’s what I’d call it. And there is a question. Is it murder? Is it terrorism? Then you get into legal semantics. The driver of the car is possibly a murderer, and what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable thing.

REPORTER: Can you tell us how you are feeling about your chief strategist, Mr. Axelrod? Can you talk about that?

REPORTER: David Axelrod --

OBAMA: Uh, I never spoke to Mr. Axelrod about it.

REPORTER: Can you tell us broadly about – do you still have confidence in David?

OBAMA: Well, uh, we’ll see. And look, uh, look…. I like Mr. Axelrod. He is a friend of mine, but Mr. Axelrod came on very late in the campaign. You know that. I went through, uh, 17 senators and governors and I won all the primaries. Mr. Axelrod, he came on very much later than that, and, uh, I like him. He is a good man. He is not a racist – I can tell you that. He is a good person. He actually gets very unfair press in that regard.

We'll see what happens with Mr. Axelrod. He’s a good person, and I think the press treats him, uh, frankly, very unfairly.

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