The sub-headline of the cited article...

... Trump viewed the 2017 intel report as his 'Achilles heel.' The analyst who wrote it opens up about Trump, Russia and what really happened in 2016 ...

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... "I think for the first time in my professional life, I felt physically ill reading something," he says.

That was only the beginning of a long, strange journey that would place van Landingham right at the center of the 2016 campaign's biggest story.

Months later, the Agency assigned him the job of writing the first draft of the intelligence community's 2017 assessment about Russian election meddling that concluded what many had suspected: Vladimir Putin did it. And he did it to help Donald Trump.

The 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), dubbed "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections," was one of the most consequential documents in modern American history.

It helped trigger investigations by the House and Senate intelligence committees and a special counsel investigation, and it fueled an eight-year-long grudge that Trump has nursed against the intelligence community.

A Trump aide would later testify that the then-president elect viewed the report as his "Achilles heel," because it threatened to diminish his surprise electoral victory over Hillary Clinton. ...

Wow, the article goes on.

Well worth the read, imo.

@#3 ... "I think for the first time in my professional life, I felt physically ill reading something," he says. ....

... and, fwiw, fmr Pres Trump's Project 2025 seems to want someone in that position who will say, ~hey, this is a great thing for fmr Pres Trump!!!~