The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. In case anyone needed another reminder, foreign adversaries have tried and are continuing to try to influence American voters. Russia has been the primary culprit, with numerous investigations concluding that Russia interfered in the 2016 election with a preference for then-candidate, now-president Donald Trump.