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President Trump's animosity toward the U.S. intelligence community has forced intelligence officials to walk a fine line between serving the president and maintaining the integrity of their work.

An exclusive report in @NYTMag by @DraperRobert. nyti.ms/3igQepC
In 2019, a highly classified document reported that Russia wanted Trump to win the 2020 election. Intelligence officials told @NYTMag that this key assessment, which officials knew would anger Trump, was changed. nyti.ms/3igQepC
.@DraperRobert spoke to 40 current and former intelligence officials, lawmakers and congressional staff, including 15 people who worked in or closely with the intelligence community during Trump’s presidency. nyti.ms/3igQepC
Under Trump, intelligence officials have been placed in the unusual position of being pressured to justify the importance of their work, protect their colleagues from political retribution and demonstrate fealty to a president, @DraperRobert reports.
On his first full day in office, President Trump addressed an audience of agency employees at CIA headquarters, where he bragged about his inauguration speech and questioned the judgment of whoever had chosen to put so many columns in the lobby. Agency veterans were furious.
One former senior administration official told @DraperRobert that President Trump would “show off about some of the stuff he thought was cool — the capabilities of different weapons systems,” to billionaires.
Jared Kushner's role in the administration also created unease within the intelligence community. A former senior administration official recalled that Kushner “would have the Chinese ambassador and his minions wandering around the West Wing unescorted.”
But the altering of a classified document on a subject known to anger the president signifies a new development of the Trump era: the intelligence community’s willingness to change what it would otherwise say straightforwardly, so that it would not upset him.
Trump’s animosity towards U.S. intelligence has been known since before his inauguration. But for the first time, @DraperRobert reports on how it has profoundly transformed the entire intelligence community. Read the full story in @NYTmag. nyti.ms/3igQepC
Read our key findings from the @NYTmag story on the classified document that rattled U.S. intelligence agency officials. nyti.ms/3fMktn2
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