Then don’t. You aren’t obligated to defend him.

Really they are just defending honest assessments of facts. Unfortunately, because the title of the article is so disgustingly disingenuous and blatantly misleading, it led a lot of people to believe his statement is blatantly hypocritical. . .so by pointing out reality you are actually “defending Trump.”

You are all but admitting that reality doesn’t matter. Sounds exactly like Trump supporters. Please don’t be like them.