It highlights hypocrisy, practically. Whether that is an appropriate 'therefore' is debatable. Personally, I do think some form of accountability around hypocrisy is necessary in our public leaders.
Generally speaking, charges of hypocrisy can often be lazy like this. Someone pointing out hypocrisy should be clear about what behavior they are actually in favor of - the value without the hypocritical action, or, the action without the stated value?