Stating a fact in a reasoned way is not a rant. The media complaining that he went around the MSM to state that fact IS a rant.
Favorite asinine juvenile trick of the left - accuse your victim of what you're doing to them.
Another example is to accuse someone of hurting people through verbal bigotry of some kind, when the accusation of harm cannot be proven - thus the accusation of bigotry itself is the only actual harm done.