Indeed: Trump says “Racism is evil,” he also says things like he’s the least racist person in the whole word, has no racist bones in his body, etc.
Here! I’ll help you out! Here’s a tweet where he carefully (/s) explains that other tweets he made are “not racist.”
End of story?
However, the “very fine people on both sides” mumbo-jumbo in response to Charlottesville and umpteen other statements he’s made on race — beginning with jumping in the birtherism bandwagon against Obama way back in 2011 — tell a different story.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/gen.medium.com/amp/p/21774f6749a4
(That’s just one article)
Exercising no critical judgment at all and taking all these competing statements on race at face-value is one option.
However: If you take all of those statements at face-value, what do you get?
Either a dude who’s a total self-serving con-man or just doesn’t know what the heck he’s talking about.
Choose your adventure