Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides”...NOT of the issue, which is clearly true, but AT THE RALLY, which is clearly not.
That was a neo-Nazi rally.
Now you can say that he MEANT that there were very fine people on both sides of the issue - and maybe he did, since he is not great with words, and he did condemn Nazis in the same speech - but that is not what he said. And he was pissed off that day by people saying he had backed down by giving a more moderate speech the day before (which obviously was written for him).
David Duke heard it right. So did Gary Cohn, who had to be talked out of resigning. So did Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, who criticized the comment. So did everybody but Trump’s most die-hard apologists.
Don’t be one of those.