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Not at all. And as proof, here is the proof that the fine people hoax was a lie:

See this wikipedia page, in the "Third statement" section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_right_rally#Third_statement [wikipedia.org]

The entire transcript quotation can be read on Wikipedia, below the quotes are trimmed to just the important bits. The first bit, the quote that CNN ran with to create the lie that is the fine people hoax (italics on the part CNN ran with, bold face on the part they excluded to create the lie):

TRUMP: ... you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. ...

And, here is the part that CNN omitted, that shows that what they reported was and still is a lie:

TRUMP: ... And you had people—and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally—but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

Reporting just the first quote, and omitting the second quote, which was only a very short distance away from the first, is outright lying on CNN's part.