Donald Trump Says Charlottesville's 'Unite the Right' Rally Was 'Fake'

Donald Trump: “And it was done to make me look bad. And it turned out to be a total fake. It basically was a rigged election. This was a part of the rigging of the election.”

We saw the video with our own eyes:

• Hundreds of angry White men walking in mass, carrying torches and chanting, “Jews will not replace us.”

• White nationalists, dressed for battle in helmets and body armor, brandishing weapons of every sort, violently attacking counter-protesters who had come to take a stand against their hate.

• Neo-Nazi Alex Fields plowing into a crowd inside his Dodge Challenger, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring more than 30 others.

Now, President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies want us to believe that we did not see what we thought we saw in Charlottesville, that it was not disturbing evidence of the rise of hate in America.

In the president’s own words, “It was fake.”

This latest Trump conspiracy theory involves the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally where as many as 1,000 white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other hatemongers descended upon the Virginia town for an event that would quickly turn deadly.

After a trial lasting more than four weeks, with more than 900 …