OPINION:
When a Democrat holds the office of the presidency, conservatives are warned not to personally attack the First Family, especially the president’s children. Pundits were warned not to attack Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton or the Obama girls.
The same rules do not apply when a Republican is in office. George W. Bush’s daughters were the butt of media jokes and attacks. First Lady Melania Trump and her son, Barron, have repeatedly been attacked by leftist elitists. The attack on the youngest Trump by Peter Fonda, the washed- up, drugggie-holdover actor from the ’60s, is the latest example of the left’s double standard (“Imagine if Peter Fonda called for caging of Obama daughters with ’pedophiles,’” Web, June 21).
The reason the attacks by the left continue is that there has never been any consequences for their actions. It’s also part their strategy to attack someone and then “humbly” apologies for it. People remember the attack, not the apology.
It’s time to change that. Mr. Fonda should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for his despicable tweet about Barron Trump. Mr. Fonda will find out that being an Easy Rider in prison is no easy ride.
PHIL GINGERELLA
Westerly, R.I.
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