Yeah, go ahead and listen to it instead of letting the media take it out of context and present their carefully crafted narrative.
Well, some of us do put the time in. I've read the transcript, and it is a(nother) appalling display from Trump. True, a huge chunk of it is Trump spouting gibberish he's got from watching right-wing media which Raffensperger patiently rebuts. The media may well have dwelt mostly on the really shameful bits, but those shameful bits are there, and they are no less shameful for the fact there is a lot of other stuff in there too. Inappropriate, unethical, possibly even illegal.
But really, even pointing out the bulk isn't attractive for Trump either. He's basically just unloading in a mostly incoherent fashion with dodgy rumours he's ripped off the internet and ultra-conservative cable news. It's the sheer ineffectuality of his verbiage, spattered with his usual groteque bragging, insults, falsehoods, crass blandishments and even the odd threat. You can see that it's his advisors who are stepping in at various points to turn the swill he's disgorging into some sort of useful actionable points.
This is the thing about Trump. His supporters actually benefit from the media cutting out so much of what he says in the average press conference or call, because to experience it all is to see just how pointless, unfocused and garbled so much he says is. And let's not pretend he steps away from the cameras to sit behind a desk and suddenly transforms into a man with consummate control of the details, laser-like precision and concentration.
