Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump defended his equivocating comments following white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, saying Friday that he was referring to supporters of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee when he said there were "fine people" on both sides.

"I have answered that question, and if you look at what I said, you will see that question was answered perfectly," Trump said Friday at the White House.

In a campaign announcement video released Thursday, Biden said that by claiming there were "fine people" on both sides in the Charlottesville riot, "the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it."

Responding to the white nationalist and neo-Nazi protests, which led to the death of one person, Trump said almost two years ago that there were "people that were very fine people on both sides."

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