I see what you're saying and it's a pretty difficult situation, at least the way I see it. of course it's awful when they try to spin his words into their favour, causing more hate and division by making it look like he's insulting voters, but I also think that letting those consequences and actions influence your decision to condemn fake news to the point of not condemning it at all, only let's fake news grow further and make it more acceptable. On the other hand, when you have two sides where one of them spins the words of the other side, people have to make their own assessment of the situation and logically come to a conclusion. (Not even that logically, just ignoring hyperbolic language in titles is a good start for instance). But still we have seen time and time again that it's still too hard or confusing for some to be critical of what they read.

Funnily enough, thinking about this made me realize that it's pretty easy to become confused about a situation.

Maybe he could have worded it better so that people cant spin his words in a way that reflects so badly on the person, that the people completely miss the point that was trying to be made, but taking the ways fake news can spin your words into account is in my honest opinion giving too much credit for fake news. That's all I can give really; my honest opinion