[npteljes]

It's not an uncharitable interpretation, but a literal one. Even then, I can see a world where we could let it go, because people sometimes just misspeak, public setting or not.

But in this current case, the speaker's political background fits the interpretation perfectly, so I don't think that we need to explain it away.

[lostmsu]

It is most certainly not the literal interpretation.

[npteljes]

I agree, I misspoke. It's not the literal interpretation, it's the interpretation of what was being said, in the context of the speaker.