It is time for our U.S. representatives and U.S. senators to put aside their blind loyalty to the president and the Republican Party and do what’s right for America. Recently, President Trump announced that Vladimir Putin told him Russians didn’t meddle in America’s 2016 presidential election and he (President Trump) believed him.

America’s intelligence agencies have said in no uncertain terms that Russia meddled and that Putin authorized the meddling and have provided proof in closed door meetings with not only President Trump but members of Congress as well. President Trump’s refusal to accept facts and to act on those facts by naming a commission to take the necessary steps to protect America’s electoral system from future foreign government meddling should be an impeachable offense on failure to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America,” as outlined in Section 1, clause 8, of the U.S. Constitution.

Imagine, my fellow Utahns, if this were President Obama instead of President Trump? Our Republican delegation would be demanding his removal from office. Instead they ignore the obvious for the sheer purpose of political gain by an executive branch they see as sympathetic to their far right agenda. We should all be very concerned that Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee and Reps. Rob Bishop, John Curtis, Mia Love and Chris Stewart have abdicated their responsibilities to the people of Utah as well as America by their subservience to President Trump.

Utah voters can show courage where Hatch, Lee, Bishop, Curtis, Love and Stewart have shown appeasement not seen since Neville Chamberlain. Come election time in November 2018, Utah voters can vote to protect the U. S. Constitution from President Trump by voting out the aforementioned congressional delegation from Utah. It’s time for Utah to show courage.