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(As I write this, Trump is more than 90 minutes late for his appearance in Manheim, Pennsylvania.)

A tweet I posted today went viral, and was even retweeted by the Clinton campaign’s @TheBriefing2016 account. Read this transcript of what Hillary said in the leaked audio last February; this is what the media want you to freak out about, and you can expect Trump to go into an extended rant about it in this Pennsylvania speech. This is a phony issue, caused by a deliberate mischaracterization of what Clinton said.

Hillary Clinton’s words. She expressed sympathy for millennials and praised their idealism. No “mocking” here. pic.twitter.com/SnH2MbFIN8

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 1, 2016

CLINTON: Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement. They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don’t see much of a future. I met with a group of young black millennials today and you know one of the young women said, “You know, none of us feel that we have the job that we should have gotten out of college. And we don’t believe the job market is going to give us much of a chance.” So that is a mindset that is really affecting their politics.

And so if you’re feeling like you’re consigned to, you know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that doesn’t pay a lot, and doesn’t have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing. So I think we should all be really understanding of that and should try to do the best we can not to be, you know, a wet blanket on idealism. We want people to be idealistic. We want them to set big goals. But to take what we can achieve now and try to present them as bigger goals.