Deconstructing President Trump’s letter to speaker Pelosi

· Pull Mr Putin's Left leg. From the outset, dissenters on the US liberal/progressive "Left" (for want of a more precise label) had been harping on the claim that the real story concerning the "Steele Dossier" namely, that the accusation that Trump was "Russian President Putin's stooge",was nonsense on stilts;

· US "Left" contempt for the Democrats' witch hunt. Some Australian readers who follow US politics closely would have known that sections of the US "Left" (who had worked hard to defeat Trump), were also emphatic in their attribution of the election of President Trump to the nomination of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party candidate in 2016. Their case focussed on her smug "identity"-based contempt for low paid (if employed) working class Americans expressed in her unique contribution to the "hate speech" lexicon, the compendious slur of convenience that half of Trump's supporters could be put in her "basket of deplorables" – they were, she said,"racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it. There are people like that. And he [ie, the monster - Trump] has lifted them up". Elsewhere on the US "Left", the Democrats' impeachment crusade has been called an absurd wild goose chase;

· We, The People v the Washington DC "Swampers". There was also the broader issue that what Trump enjoyed poking fun at, the murky swamp-like world of Washington, DC political charades, was a loathing which millions of Americans heartily embraced. One observer on the Republican side has described the hysteria and antagonism produced by Trump winning the presidency as the response of the folks whose main concern was the fight for political spoils, between Team Evil (the Democrats) and Team Stupid (the Republicans);

· The President's perceived enemies within. As one year passed by since the 2016 election and then another, and then another and the Congressional Democrats and their allies intensified their anti-Trump hate speech onslaught, some sceptical Australian readers would have taken the time to familiarise themselves with the findings of inquiries related to the election of the 45th President and subsequent events commencing with the Report of the Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Justice (Inspector General) reviewing the actions of the FBI and the Department in advance of the 2016 election (June 2018). Then came the Inspector General's investigation of former FBI Director James Comey's disclosure of sensitive Information and Handling of Certain Memoranda (August 2019);

· Once More - Please explain!And more recently came the Inspector General's report on his review of four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications and other aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation into the Trump 2016 campaign (December 2019). This report no doubt bolstered the determination of the aforesaid "deplorables" to see their hero in The White House vanquish the aforesaid odious "DC "swampers";

· The duty of candour flouted. Australian lawyers reading the President'sletter could readily understand the President's annoyance in having to contend with what he calls a congressional witch hunt, particularly in light of the findings of her Honour Judge Rosemary M Collyer of the US Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court set out in her decision on 17 December 2019 that the FBI, in breach of its solemn duty of candour to the Court, had provided false information to the Court in support of the applications and had withheld material information which was detrimental to its case for authority to conduct electronic surveillance targeting a US citizen, Carter W Page who was affiliated with the Trump presidential campaign and who was suspected of being a Russian agent. Soon, the US Government will comply the Court's order that it explain the deception practised on the Court.

Finally, interested Australians would have received almost no assistance whatsoever from our credulous national broadcaster's coverage of the President's letter to Speaker Pelosi. Why? Because the ABC, in blatant disregard of its duty under s 8 of the Australian BroadcastingCorporation Act1983, to ensure that its gathering and presentation of news and information is accurate and impartial according to the recognized standards of objective journalism, is at the forefront of thosesegments of the Australian mainstream media which have an institutionalised loathing of the 45th President of the US. That assertion can be tested in the context of the President's letter to Speaker Pelosi by considering the one-sided interview (in truth, yet another ABC hatchet job on Trump) first broadcast on ABC RN at 6:45am on Thursday, 19 December 2019.

However, among those Australians who rely on the ABC there will be some readers of the President's letter to the House Speaker who will be aware that W C Fields (1880-1946) is reputed to have said that "Anyone who hates small children and dogs (or animals) can't be all bad." They will give credit where an off-setting credit is due for the ABC for some good old-fashioned objective journalism via the folks at Planet America who on 19 September 2009 publicised one aspect of the US Left's exposé of the Steele Dossier jiggery pokery in the run-up to publication of the Inspector General's December 2019 report.