“Lock her up!  Lock her up!”  Anyone familiar with our political discourse remembers the GOP battle cry that fueled Donald Trump’s rise to the White House.

During what would prove to be a damning news conference; then FBI Director, James Comey outed Hillary Clinton for using a personal email system during her time as Secretary of State for conducting classified federal government business.  Comey called Clinton’s behavior “extremely careless” noting: “a person in her position should have known that an unclassified system was no place for the emails she was sending.”

Trump and his band of loyal sycophants seized on the moment and used the FBI’s findings as proof of Clinton’s lack of fitness to serve.  “Lock her up!” became the Republican battle cry.

Fast forward to the early years of the Trump administration and you cannot help but be shocked at the rampant mind numbing hypocrisy as senior administration officials, including the president himself, handle sensitive federal communications in the same “extremely careless” manner that cost Hillary Clinton the White House.

Corroborated sources tell us that senior White House staff officials, including the president, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump use unsecure personal cell phones and email accounts to conduct official government business.  We know that the president inexplicably shared information about a classified operation with Russian officials in the Oval Office.  Within the past 24 hours we learned that 25 White House staffers were denied classified security clearances only to have the president overrule the declinations.  Included among those officials whose security clearance was denied: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.  We know that then White House counsel Don McGhan and then Chief-of-Staff John Kelly were so alarmed by the reckless manner in which the president overruled those responsible for vetting security clearances, that they both wrote memos to file to note their objections for the record.  We know that Jared Kushner sought to set up a secret back channel to communicate with the Russian government beyond the watching eyes of the intelligence community.

In recent days we have learned that the president’s vacation retreat, Mar-a-Lago, has become the scene of some incredibly disturbing breeches in national security. We have video of the president conducting sensitive military operations in plain site of his dinner companions.  We see the president discussing the operation at the dinner table; Japanese President Shinzo Abe seated at his side, random passers by lighting up the scene with their cell phones.  Yesterday, Yujing Zhang, a Chinese citizen, was found illegally wandering around the compound.  She was carrying multiple passports, four cell phones and malicious malware.  Zhang has been seen previously at Mar-a-Lago and several other Republican events and is known to have presented herself as someone who could provide access to the president…for a price.

You can’t make this stuff up.

At the time of the Comey news conference I opined that Hillary Clinton was not being held to the same standard as the average citizen.  Clinton used her position and power to shirk the law for which she suffered a public tongue lashing.  If any “normal” citizen had acted in the same fashion they would find themselves looking at the inside of a jail cell.  Counter-intelligence expert Malcolm Nance and a host of former intelligence operatives concurred; noting that they would have been called back to Washington, stripped of their security clearance and shown the door for far less.

Donald Trump and his fawning toadies are calling for a re-opening of the investigation into Clinton’s email scandal.

Fair enough!

But if you are going to “Lock her up”…

…shouldn’t Donald, Jared, Ivanka and a host of other White House security offenders join Hillary in orange jumpsuits?