Last year, one of us wrote a piece for The Salt Lake Tribune about the importance of protecting the integrity of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Our and others’ concerns about President Trump’s disrespect for the American electoral process – not to mention his lack of an identifiable moral compass – have only grown in recent months. That report laid out an unarguable case that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, which is also the unanimous conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community.
We now know that Trump extorted Ukraine, a U.