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SundayReview | Editorial
Mr. Trump’s Dangerous Indifference to Russia
A
rival foreign power launched an aggressive cyberattack on the United
States, interfering with the 2016 presidential election and leaving
every indication that it’s coming back for more — but President Trump
doesn’t seem to care.
The unprecedented nature of Russia’s attack
is getting lost in the swirling chaos of recent weeks, but it shouldn’t
be. American intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia took
direct aim at the integrity of American democracy, and yet after almost
five months in office, the commander in chief appears unconcerned with
that threat to our national security. The only aspect of the Russia
story that attracts his attention is the threat it poses to the
perceived legitimacy of his electoral win.
If
not for the continuing investigation into possible collusion between
the Trump campaign and the Russians — and whether Mr. Trump himself has
obstructed that investigation — the president’s indifference would be
front-page news.
So let’s take a moment to recall the sheer scope and audacity of the Russian efforts.
Under direct orders from President Vladimir Putin, hackers connected to Russian military intelligence broke into the email accounts
of senior officials at the Democratic National Committee and of Hillary
Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. They passed tens of thousands
of emails to the website WikiLeaks, which posted them throughout the
last months of the campaign in an attempt to damage the Clinton
campaign.
Even more disturbing, hackers sought access to voter databases in at least 39 states, and in some cases tried to alter or delete voter data. They also appear to have tried to take over the computers of more than 100 local election officials in the days before the Nov. 8 vote.
There is no evidence that these efforts affected the outcome of the election. But that’s beside the point. The Russians have engaged
in behavior like this in other countries, and they’re getting better at
it. An American presidential election may be their biggest target to
date, but it’s hardly their first. In the last decade they have hacked
computer networks in Estonia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, and
Bulgaria — often stealing data. They have disseminated fake news stories
and other disinformation to interfere with elections in other
countries, as they did here.
It’s
a global threat, and serious people treat it that way. In December,
President Barack Obama responded by punishing Mr. Putin with a new round of sanctions,
expelling dozens of suspected Russian intelligence operatives and
barring access to estates they used for intelligence activities. On June
14, the Senate voted 97 to 2 to block Mr. Trump from lifting those sanctions unilaterally. Meanwhile, a majority of Americans accept the intelligence community’s consensus that Russia interfered with the election.
Yet Mr. Trump has been dismissive at best. As a candidate, he encouraged Russian hackers to find
thousands of emails that he said Mrs. Clinton had illegally deleted.
His response as president-elect to the reports that Russia had attempted
to swing the election in his favor was to challenge the intelligence
community’s credibility and say it was time “to move on.”
Even
after taking office, he has remained skeptical. In a phone call with
the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael Rogers, he
“questioned the veracity” of the finding of Russian interference, according to The Wall Street Journal.
When James Comey, the former F.B.I. director whom Mr. Trump fired in May, was asked during his Senate testimony
this month whether President Trump had ever inquired about the
interference campaign itself — as opposed to how the investigation into
it might affect him personally — he said, “No.”
In
other words, to the extent that Mr. Trump countenances the idea of a
Russian attack, he seems to regard it as all about him. The “obsession”
with it, he claims, is driven by Democrats upset over losing an election
they expected to win.
This
is demonstrably false. It also ignores the true threat. As Mr. Comey
said of the attack: “It’s not a Republican thing or Democratic thing. It
really is an American thing. They’re going to come for whatever party
they choose to try and work on behalf of. And they’re not devoted to
either, in my experience. They’re just about their own advantage. And
they will be back.”
Even
if the investigations find no evidence that Mr. Trump’s campaign
colluded with the Russians, the president’s refusal to accept the truth
about this attack on our democracy denies reality and leaves the country
vulnerable to more damaging attacks. The true obsession is Mr. Trump’s,
with his own brand, and it’s distracting him from his most important
duty — to protect the nation.
