Philip Bump: A guideline I use that has served me well is that if a lot of people who I know to be stupid are saying something a lot, it's probably wrong.

Trump claimed last night that he'd been "exonerated" (including by Tapper) for using the phrase "very fine people" to describe protesters at Charlottesville. It's a years-long retcon that requires ignoring a lot of context. Gift link: wapo.st/4cEaH47

Analysis | What Trump said with his ‘very fine people’ comments vs. what he meantwapo.st Trump and his supporters like to remove his comments from his broader effort to downplay the actions of white supremacists in 2017 in Charlottesville.

A guideline I use that has served me well is that if a lot of people who I know to be stupid are saying something a lot, it's probably wrong.

Yeah, but the flip side is that one is likely stupid in their eyes (they are, of course, wrong)

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