Kellyanne Conway defended Donald Trump’s controversial comments about the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday.

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Conway told host Jake Tapper that the president’s widely criticized response to the violence at a 2017 protest in Charlottesville was faultless.

“When President Trump condemned racism, bigotry, evil, violence and then took it many steps further and called out neo-Nazis, white supremacists, KKK, that is darn near perfection,” Conway said. “All neo-Nazis, all anti-Christianity, all anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim activity should be condemned, dead stop full. That’s the perfect response.”

That stands in contrast to critics who have sharply condemned Trump for saying that there were “very fine people on both sides” after the deadly clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville two years ago.

Following last month’s shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which killed 50, Trump denied that white nationalism is a growing threat, prompting further criticism. The shooter had written a manifesto prior to the shootings that alluded to white nationalism and advocated for the creation of a white state.

Conway pushed back on the notion that Trump doesn’t adequately condemn the threat Sunday, saying, “The president believes white nationalism and white supremacy are threats.”

“I think there’s many growing threats and that’s one of them,” Conway said. “He does think there’s a threat and there is no question there is a threat.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden entered the 2020 presidential race on Thursday with a video that slammed Trump over his comments about Charlottesville.

Trump has since clarified that he didn’t mean that the white supremacists were fine people; but rather was alluding to those who were there simply to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

“I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general. Whether you like it or not he was one of the great generals,” Trump said Friday. “People were there protesting the taking down of the monument of Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.”

During the Charlottesville protest and counterprotests, Heather Heyer, 32, was killed by James Fields, 20, after he ran her over with his vehicle at a white supremacist rally.

WATCH:

In a contentious interview with @JakeTapper, @KellyannePolls states that @realDonaldTrump's statements after the deadly "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville was "darn near perfection."https://t.co/kn3crbXWYa pic.twitter.com/70MC819HMC

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 28, 2019