No. He dissembled, and attempted to obfuscate the nature of the events at Charlottesville from the very beginning. And not only "obfuscate", but to turn the facts on their head, and reality inside-out. And Adams, in attempting to frame statements like the above (and the other ludicrous and/or simply nauseating things that Trump said after the attack) as a "generic law and order response, applied equally", is simply dissembling and obfuscating even further.
If you are outside the mass hysteria bubble, you might see what I am doing in this blog as a valuable public service. If you are inside the mass hysteria bubble, I look like a Nazi collaborator.
No, just self-impressed and (when he steps too far outside the realm of the comic strip that made him famous) tragically self-deluded.