President Donald Trump pushed aside his acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, because he was angry that lawmakers were briefed about Russia's plan to interfere in the 2020 election to help Trump, a former intelligence official briefed on the matter told NBC News.
NBC News had previously confirmed that the election briefing by Shelby Pierson, the DNI's election security czar, angered Trump, but had not confirmed the content of the briefing. The news was first reported by the New York Times.
