Letter to the editor: GOP's double standards

The hypocrisy of the GOP is astonishing. They talked about Hillary Clinton’s emails ad nauseum. Chants of “lock her up” are still echoed at rallies. The emails discussed innocuous matters already available in the public domain. In other words, the emails contained information that was classified, but the public knew of the information. For that, the faithful followers of then-candidate Donald Trump wanted to “lock her up.”

Let’s compare that to the deliberate action of an outgoing president when he knowingly removed classified, top secret documents from the White House and put them in an unsecured room in his private residence that is also a golf club. Why would one brazenly commit such a serious breach of national security? What would a private citizen have to gain by confiscating government classified intelligence?

Many of these same Trump supporters are now chanting absolute outrage toward the FBI. The “law and order” party is accusing the FBI of tyranny, of abuse of power. The GOP faithful seem to have two different standards when it comes to breaking the law. When a judge reviewed the evidence leading to a search warrant to retrieve the documents in question, the chanters wanted to defund the FBI and do physical harm to agents, not hold the perpetrator of the crime accountable.

It seems their take on law enforcement and protecting national security only needs to be enforced when it is supportive of their ideals, agenda and the proclaimed leader of the GOP.

Katie Forsythe

North Huntingdon