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The electoral systems in four out of five states were hacked during the 2016 election ("Breach of 39 state systems seen as threat," Bloomberg News article, Wednesday's Dispatch). The former FBI director has "no doubt" those attacks came from the highest levels of Russian government. And today, the hottest topic in Congress and the media seems to be whether Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice.

The election process is the foundation of our democracy; an attack to manipulate our elections is an attack on our nation. Russia is employing 21st century warfare to destroy this and other nations from within. Yet, our president shows outrage only at the Paul Reveres shouting out the alarm.

Would Franklin D. Roosevelt have claimed that Pearl Harbor was "fake news"? Would George W. Bush have discounted 9/11 as "fake news"? But our commander-in-chief sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States is disregarding hundreds of attacks on American democracy. President Donald Trump vainly cares more for his sense of legitimacy than he does for the security of America. This isn't just obstruction of justice. This is obstruction of democracy.

Will Kopp

Westerville

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