Even Nazis have first amendment rights. There was a time when Liberals recognized that.
Free speech was why the US government joined Ukraine as the only no votes against a Russian-backed UN resolution against “the glorification of Nazism”.
The “fine people” that Trump was referring to were people who were not connected with the Nazis or Antifa and were peacefully exercising their first amendment rights. The fact they may have had views about the statues that were similar to those of violent extremists does not change that.
The American Nationalist Socialist movement was one of the groups in attendance. They are an offshoot of George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi party.