To the Editor:

Re “Trump, at Putin’s Side, Questions U.S. Intelligence on 2016 Election” (nytimes.com, July 16):

We have just watched the news conference with President Trump and Vladimir Putin, which leaves us heartbroken, angry and fearful for our nation. Our president just sided with a foreign power that attacked our democracy over the findings of his own intelligence agencies. We agree with Charles M. Blow that his behavior is treasonous (“Trump, Treasonous Traitor,” column, July 16).

Where, we ask, are the Republicans in Congress? Will they continue to put their partisan interests over the security of our democracy? They, too, will have to answer to history.

We cannot sit idly by. Every one of us who loves this country and the freedoms it offers must become activists. If government officials won’t put country first, we must vote them out before it’s too late.

DONOVAN LJUNG, ELLEN LJUNG

GENEVA, ILL.

To the Editor:

Portrait from Helsinki: News conference, two of the world’s consummate liars, denying, denying, denying. The first denying any attempt to interfere with America’s 2016 presidential election, despite the fact that it is by now well established — the second denying any collusion in that interference. A performance that will live in perfidy.