Trump has a pattern of issuing “easily misinterpreted” statements that dig Grand Canyon-sized holes for himself. He has to know that the media will jump on the worst explanation and crucify him. So why does he do it? Does he engage in this because:
1) as a confident patriarch, Trump says what he wants, rather than reciting carefully parsed lawyer-speak like a weaseling Clinton; most Trump supporters like this and those who don’t can go F themselves;
2) it’s part of a communications strategy with some greater benefit (e.g., fooling leftists into spreading news the left would otherwise censor, like the fact that the FBI and other Democrats in government manipulate social media to subvert elections and free speech rights); or,
3) Trump has a psychological need to struggle against impossible odds — the most impossible and perfect odds ever.