The whole purpose of quotation marks is to validate statements so that as little interpretation as possible is needed.

You quoted the author, arguing that he or she did not quote the president correctly. That's fine. But then you added a word  - specifically "attack" -  to validate a statement - common sense or not - that the president also didn't make.

As I said, it's possible that he was purposely vague on this   to give KJU a bigger case of the sweats.