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Joe Biden's Latest Ad About Trump Is a Complete Lie

Leah Barkoukis
Leah Barkoukis  |  January 02, 2020 8:05 AM

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released an ad New Year’s Day that revisits the same lie about President Trump’s Charlottesville comments that he used to launch his campaign.

The ad appears to show the president referring to white supremacists and neo-Nazis as “very fine people.”

It then cuts to a clip of Biden telling a crowd, “we are in a battle for the soul of our nation. Everything that’s made America, America, is at stake.”

In tweeting out the video, Biden also referred to Trump as “poison to our soul” as a nation.

Trump's re-election team was quick to punch back, releasing the clip that shows the president in Trump Tower condemning the violence in Charlottesville, saying he was "not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally."

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At the time, Trump also delivered a statement from the White House calling out racism in America. 

"Racism is evil -- and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans," Trump said.

"Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America," he added.

Back in April when Biden first launched his campaign attacking Trump over his Charlottesville remarks, even CNN's Jake Tapper admitted the president condemned the white supremacists and neo-Nazis.