Yes, there should be accountability

To the editor:

A recent Commercial Review editorial said that there should be accountability.

I agree, but for totally different reasons.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton destroyed 32,000 emails under legal subpoena. She was never indicted. Former president Donald Trump was impeached for failing to comply with illegal subpoenas that were issued by U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) before the house voted him subpoena power. Accountability?

Trump was impeached for a quid pro quo with the Ukraine despite every witness admitting they had no evidence that he was guilty. President Joe Biden is on video bragging that he used a billion U.S. dollars to get the prosecutor investigating his son fired. There has been no move by the hypocritical Democrats to impeach him. Accountability?

Now these same hypocrites are impeaching Trump again for telling his supporters to go to the capital and “peacefully protest.” When thousands of rioters laid siege to the White House injuring dozens of Secret Service agents, tried to burn a church and looted and burned businesses, it was a “mostly peaceful protest” that didn’t need the National Guard. When a handful of thugs who supported Trump broke into the Capital it was an “insurrection” and an “attempted coup.” And it required 25,000 National Guard to protect the Capital from rioters who never showed up. Accountability?

For five years, Democrats have spewed an unending litany of hate Trump lies and anti-Republican vitriol that puts anything Trump said to shame but it is only Trump’s rhetoric that is hate speech. Accountability?

Democrat run Big Tech is systematically trying to silence Trump and all conservative speech, calling it “hate speech” when it is actually just speech they hate. And all of the real hate speech that has been broadcast by Democrats for decades is still online and the Democrat purveyors of hate are still on Facebook and Twitter. Accountability?

Just read another editorial by the Washington Post that claims a non-partisan study says One News and Newsmax run a lot of fake news and FOX distorts the truth. No mention of the Democrat propaganda and outright lies in their own paper or CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the AP or other Democrat news outlets. And no mention of the three-year Russia hoax that got full coverage. Clearly the study was itself a fake news source.

There is only accountability for the right and none at all for the left. Sad. Even sadder is the fact that most on the left can’t even see what is happening.

Stephen Erwin

Portland