Bad-faith readings are the job of a lawyer, but what I pointed out goes beyond a bad-faith reading. It's a literal lie, made by truncating a sentence. If you were to say "Nazis are the greatest evil the world has seen", and a lawyer in court quoted you as saying "Nazis are the greatest", that's not a lawyer's standard bad faith reading.

If you think the above would be legally permissible then I'm afraid you're incorrect regarding which of us has a "pretty weak grasp of how the legal system works".

I do agree with your first two paragraphs.