Sorry, but your spin is what is intellectually dishonest.
Nothing in isolation. Trump had a long train of racist remarks and behavior before his Charlottesville display of moral imbecility.
His comments about Confederate monuments were afterthoughts and clearly inauthentic.
“It was not only morally ambiguous, it was equivocating,” then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican, said at a CNN Town Hall, adding that Trump's comments were "wrong."