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Left-leaning fact-checker finally admits Trump never called neo-Nazis 'very fine people' after 7 years, falsehood spread by Biden



It only took nearly seven years, but left-leaning fact-checking website Snopes finally admitted that former President Donald Trump never called neo-Nazis or white supremacists in Charlottesville "very fine people." The falsehood has regularly been spread by President Joe Biden.

The media-driven controversy stemmed from the so-called "Unite the Right" rally held in August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The demonstration was attended by various groups across the political spectrum, including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, individuals protesting the removal of a Confederate statue, and progressives holding a counter-protest.

The demonstration turned violent when James Fields Jr. deliberately rammed his car into a group of counter-protesters. Civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed in the car attack and more than 30 others were injured. He was sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.

Days after the deadly attack, then-President Trump held a press conference and was asked by a reporter about the neo-Nazis at the rally and said:

Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.

Despite the availability of Trump's quote made on Aug. 15, 2017, Snopes waited nearly seven years to challenge the media narrative that the former president called the neo-Nazis "very fine people."

On Thursday, Snopes published a fact-check article titled: "No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People.'"

The left-leaning fact-checker noted:

In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counter-protesters. He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally."

Snopes was inundated with complaints about the fact-check by its liberal readership, to which it released an editor's note the next day:

Editors' Note: Some readers have raised the objection that this fact check appears to assume Trump was correct in stating that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the Charlottesville incident. That is not the case. This fact check aimed to confirm what Trump actually said, not whether what he said was true or false. For the record, virtually every source that covered the Unite the Right debacle concluded that it was conceived of, led by and attended by white supremacists, and that therefore Trump was wrong.

Since Trump's "very fine people" remark, numerous Democrats have pounced on his comments by misconstruing his words. Biden has regularly spread the partial, misleading "very fine people" hoax in an attempt to hurt Trump politically. Snopes noted that the misinformation "spread like wildfire" and was "a cornerstone" of Biden's 2020 campaign." You can see examples of Biden weaponizing Trump's quote here, here, here, and here.

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Snopes Finally Corrects The Record On Notorious Trump Hoax — Seven Years Later

Biden used the Charlottesville hoax as the predicate for the launch of his 2020 presidential campaign

Snopes caves after people with real-world experience point out its 'fact-check' about Biden was false



Snopes, a media outfit still regarded by some as an arbiter of truth and a checker of facts, has issued a correction after pushing a blatant falsehood that painted President Joe Biden in a positive light.

Biden was in Wisconsin last week, hyping his administration's pre-election injection of taxpayer funds into infrastructure projects in the swing state. During his promotional tour, the 81-year-old Democrat joined Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in visiting a construction site in Superior.

While Biden managed to keep his footing this time around, he nevertheless set himself up for ridicule during a photo op by wearing a construction hat backward, as indicated by the nape strap planted firmly on his forehead.

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Critics on social media quickly descended on the post, claiming the geriatric Democrat's inability to properly don a hard hat further exemplified his detachment from working-class Americans along with his decrepitude.

Snopes swooped in with a so-called "fact-check" Friday, stating the claim, "President Joe Biden wore a hard hat backwards during a photo op with union construction workers in Superior, Wisconsin," was "False."

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"Social media users not particularly friendly to the president were quick to identify what they took to be a gaffe on Biden' part: He appeared to be wearing a hard hat backwards," wrote Snopes' so-called fact-checker David Emery.

While Emery conceded the photo was genuine, he claimed that all those with real-world insights into how a hard hat should be worn were still wrong: "The hat on Biden's head was facing forward, bill to the front, not backward."

In his "fact-check," Emery included multiple images showing the construction worker whose hat Biden donned wearing the exact same hat the correct way. Those images were not, however, enough to shake Emery of his "particularly friendly" conviction that Biden was in the right.

Snopes' false fact-check sparked significant backlash and mockery, even among contributors to news publications with similar credibility problems.

David Urban, an American lobbyist and CNN commentator, wrote, "C'mon man!' @snopes you blew this one #BIGLY! As anyone who has ever touched a hard hat can tell you, @JoeBiden is wearing it #backward!"

Another critic noted that "all Snopes had to do (besides have any experience at all wearing a helmet) is simply open any user manual or instructions. ... He's wearing the nape strap in the front. Nape literally means 'back of the neck'. He's wearing it backward. This isn't rocket science!"

Podcaster Tim Pool wrote, "The reality is that snopes writers don't know how hard hats work."

Emery, who days earlier claimed, "Social media is making us stupid," responded to the backlash, tweeting, "TIL that literally everyone on X was a construction worker for 40 years."

Snopes made a complete about-face on Jan. 27, changing its rating of the initial claim from false to true.

"We received a ton of comments in a very short time challenging our assumption that wearing a hard hat 'backwards' means wearing it with the brim facing to the rear, and 'forwards' means means wearing it brim to the front," said an editor's note appended to the revised fact check.

"The prevailing counter-argument is that if the suspension of the hat has been purposely configured by its owner such that the bill and tightening knob are worn to the back (as was the case of the hat Biden wore), to wear that hat with the bill facing forward is, practically speaking, to wear it backwards," continued the editor's note. "Therefore, it's argued, it's actually true that, in the photo op discussed below, Biden was wearing it backwards. The strap and tightening knob, which should have been behind Biden's head, were on his forehead. A corollary to that argument is 'Biden looks damn silly in any case.'"

"We find these arguments sound. Therefore, the claim 'President Joe Biden wore a hard hat backwards during a photo op with union construction workers in Superior, Wisconsin' is true, and this fact check has been re-rated as such," added the note.

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Snopes gets taken to the WOODSHED for 'pathetic' attempt to defend Will Smith



In the wake of the now-infamous "slap heard around the world," a video clip of actor Will Smith making a bald joke during an appearance on "The Arsenio Hall Show" in 1991 has resurfaced.

Even before winning the Academy Award for best actor, Smith had already made headlines by marching onstage to smack comedian Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about his wife's hair loss.

Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, suffers from alopecia, a condition defined by the Mayo Clinic as "hair loss (that) can affect just your scalp or your entire body." This includes, among others, androgenic alopecia (male-pattern baldness and female-pattern baldness), frontal fibrosing alopecia (a receding hairline), and alopecia areata, which is immune system-related and causes patchy hair loss.

Following Smith's unhinged reaction to Rock's joke at the Oscars, a video resurfaced on social media of Smith making a "bald joke" about Arsenio Hall’s bassist, John B. Williams, during a 1991 appearance on "The Arsenio Hall Show."


That time in 1991 when Will Smith made fun of a bald man on the Arsenio Hall Show and said \u201cawe these are jokes man c\u2019mon\u201d.\n#WillAndChris #WillSmithAssault #ChrisRock #WillSmithpic.twitter.com/LMUyjwj0d8
— ThePopPunkDad (@ThePopPunkDad) 1648506144


The so called "fact-checkers" on Snopes were quick to jump to Smith's defense with an article that seriously attempted to say Smith isn't a bald-joke hypocrite because Williams, though clearly bald, does not necessarily suffer from alopecia.

Never mind that the vast majority of Twitter posts on the topic said nothing about "alopecia"; Snopes dug up the "one viral version of this video" (Snopes' own words, not ours) that was captioned, "Now this is a video of Will Smith saying a joke about someone with alopecia" to make the case.


Did Will Smith once do the exact same thing \u2014 make a bald joke directed at a person with alopecia \u2014 that led him to hit Chris Rock at the Oscars?\n\n No, and here's how we know:https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/will-smith-arsenio-hall/\u00a0\u2026
— snopes.com (@snopes.com) 1648629902

"While this clip is real, there’s no evidence that Smith’s joke was directed at someone with alopecia," wrote Snopes.

"While Smith did make a bald joke during this appearance, there’s no evidence that Williams, like Pinkett Smith, has alopecia. We looked over Williams’ bio on his website, profiles of the artist, and several interviews, and found no mention of Williams having alopecia. It appears that this claim was made up out of whole cloth in order to increase the video’s virality by making Smith’s actions appear especially hypocritical," the article added.

Many people on Twitter felt that Snopes may have entirely missed the point:

So he just had regular hair loss from a past illness?\nHunh.\nAnd not "alopecia" which is the medical term for hair loss?\nThat's... an interesting and useless claim of a difference.\n\nGood job fact hiders.\nYou've worked hard to hide another fact.
— Bert Difig (@Bert Difig) 1648653284
Another case of it's true but we don't like the narrative so we'll say it's not true
— MyOpinion (@MyOpinion) 1648650583
Q. Did Will Smith or did he not make fun of another person\u2019s lack of hair? \nA. He did. \n\nYour pathetic attempt to excuse Will Smith\u2019s unacceptable behavior is duly noted. Please dont whine because people don\u2019t take you seriously as a \u201cfact check\u201d site.
— Reine (@Reine) 1648649978


Snopes you really are a bunch of dishonest hacks. Love how you add in the qualifier \u201cwith alopecia\u201d to say the Will Smith didn\u2019t make fun of someone\u2019s hair\u2026
— RandomDragon (@RandomDragon) 1648654653
No one takes your so called journalism! Seriously.
— Sloan section 31 (@Sloan section 31) 1648654578
Snopes is a CLOWN SHOW!pic.twitter.com/PH0wbwWPcy
— Cindy (@Cindy) 1648650615


Snopes keeps posting this, but has missed that male pattern baldness called androgenic alopecia. Clearly not the same type of alopecia but still, yes Smith did make a joke at someone with alopecia.
— LatCit (@LatCit) 1648630180
Pathetic @snopes; just pathetic.
— Connie McLou \ud83c\udf40\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u2618\ufe0f (@Connie McLou \ud83c\udf40\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u2618\ufe0f) 1648656827
You're nothing more than a mouthpiece for the lefties anymore. You're lack of any research before you make an ass of yourselves is pathetic.
— Erin (@Erin) 1648651840

Fact-checker tries to protect Biden over crack pipe story — but fails spectacularly



Snopes, a prominent fact-checking outlet, investigated controversial claims that the Biden administration will use federal money to fund the distribution of glass pipes commonly used to smoke drugs, like crack or meth, and declared the story "mostly false."

But in the fact check, Snopes admitted the exact premise of the baffling story is true.

What is the background?

The Washington Free Beacon revealed this week that the Biden administration would soon fund the distribution of pipes used for smoking illicit drugs in marginalized communities under the guise of "advancing racial equity."

Under the Department of Health and Human Services' Harm Reduction Program Grant program, government funds (i.e. taxpayer money) would be distributed to local governments and nonprofit organizations to make drug use safer. Some of the funds would be used on "smoking kits/supplies."

An HHS spokesperson, in fact, told the Free Beacon the kits would provide glass pipes that drug addicts use to smoke crack, crystal methamphetamine, and "any illicit substance." The Free Beacon added, "HHS said the kits aim to reduce the risk of infection when smoking substances with glass pipes, which can lead to infections through cuts and sores."

What did Snopes say?

The fact-checking org claimed the story was "mostly false" because the story highlighted the distribution of drug-smoking pipes and neglected other aspects of the HHS's harm reduction program.

Not only did Snopes admit that "smoking kits" would be distributed to drug users under the program, but Snopes admitted that advancing racial equity is part of the program's purpose.

Snopes explained:

What's True:
In 2022, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services substance abuse harm reduction grant did require recipients to provide safer smoking kits to existing drug users. In distributing grants, priority would be given to applicants serving historically underserved communities. However...

What's False:
This was just one of around 20 components of the grant program and far from its most prominent or important one, despite being the primary focus of outraged news reports. The purpose of the program was to reduce harm and the risk of infection among drug users, not to advance racial equity, although that was a secondary consideration.

Snopes, therefore, rated the claims "mostly false" because the stories emphasized aspects of the HHS program that painted President Joe Biden negatively — not that they were actually false.

How did the Biden administration respond?

After the story generated backlash, the HHS — despite previously confirming the story — called the story "blatant misinformation." White House press secretary Jen Psaki also characterized it as "inaccurate reporting."

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra then released a statement saying federal money would not fund drug pipes.

"No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits," Becerra said Wednesday in a joint statement with White House drug policy adviser Rahul Gupta.

Despite condemning the story as untrue, the HHS has "declined to provide any information to refute the report," the Free Beacon reported.

Anything else?

In light of Becerra's statement, Scopes updated its fact check to "outdated."

"After a wave of grossly misleading news coverage in February 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stipulated that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in safe smoking kits, as part of a substance abuse harm reduction grant program. This newly-stipulated detail was not originally available, meaning the assertions made in a first wave of coverage had become outdated," Snopes explained.

Interestingly, Becerra's statement did not dispute whether drug pipes would have originally been funded; it said only that drug pipes would not be funded moving forward.