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That's a fair comment. His opening paragraph repeats what he was told (or at least led to believe), and so it's not unreasonable that he should reproduce those statements. Of course, the real problem, and so where the fault lies, is that what he was told was not true (i.e. alternative facts). That said, he has to take some of the blame for being too lazy to work it all out for himself. But most people don't bother.
People aren't 'thick', they just get lied to and have their trust abused. The small number of falsehoods in this letter are all down to 'newspapers' printing/publishing (online) total nonsense.