Except that’s not what happened. What happened, to be absolutely precise is this: Trump made his original comments, and then doubled down on them on 3 separate occasions and refused to clarify them for 5 days. Then on the 6th day he retracted what he said, claimed that he never meant to defend white supremacists, and in the same breath attacked the media for reporting “fake news”. About a week after this clarification, Trump in front of one of his rallies again referred to the neo Nazis as “very fine people” without any clarification.
That’s the “clarity” you’re referring to and it’s this man’s pattern: make the comment, defend it, defend it, deny saying it, clarify it, attack the media, say it again at a rally. Every damn time.