Trump's right: The media's rigged the game . . . but he has to overcome it

I could feel Donald Trump’s frustration from thousands of miles away. I’d been there. In the course of a campaign for president, you say something that isn’t as clear as it could be. The political class calls statements like this “inartful” for some reason. You know what you meant. It’s easy enough to explain it. But it doesn’t matter, because the media caught you in a trap, and now they’re going into days or weeks of histrionics over a completely absurd interpretation of something you said – an inference that anyone with a brain knows you didn’t intend. But it doesn’t matter. Suggesting that “the Second Amendment people” might have a way or protecting their own rights hardly sounds like anything objectionable to me, but to people with an agenda and an imagination, it quickly became “Trump calls for Hillary’s assassination.”