[WATCH] Former DHS Whistleblower Says Trump Should Never Return, Would Be ‘A Disaster’ For U.S.

A former senior Department of Homeland Security official who once accused the Trump administration of politicizing intelligence said Sunday that a Donald Trump return to the White House in 2024 “would be a disaster” for the U.S. intelligence community.

“Trump has denigrated the intelligence community, he puts out disinformation — and that’s an existential threat to democracy and he is one of the best at putting it out and hurting this country,” Brian Murphy, who once led the DHS intelligence branch, said Sunday in an exclusive interview on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos.

Murphy, a long-time federal law enforcement official, made headlines last year after filing a whistleblower complaint accusing Trump-appointed leaders of politicizing intelligence by withholding or downplaying threats that ran counter to Trump’s political messages. The 24-page complaint, filed in September 2020, named former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former acting Secretary Chad Wolf as trying to “censor or manipulate” intelligence bulletins related to Russian meddling in the presidential election and the threat of domestic white supremacist groups. In his complaint, Murphy further accused Nielsen, Wolf, and other top officials of scrambling to gather and prepare intelligence reports that aligned with Trump’s public remarks in the months leading up to the 2020 election.

In an interview with @GStephanopoulos, former DHS whistleblower Brian Murphy says Trump administration officials “did not want American public to know that the Russians were supporting Trump and denigrating the — what would soon be President Biden.” https://t.co/ZKh48W5eh1 pic.twitter.com/VBpXRUQ0Ua

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 26, 2021

“I became a whistleblower because when I arrived at DHS in 2018, from the outset, everything that I had stood for — you know, finding objective truth when I was in the FBI and serving in the Marines and serving the American public — was quickly told to me that’s no longer acceptable,” Murphy told Stephanopolous on Sunday.

“There was intense pressure to try to take intelligence and fit a political narrative.”

Former DHS Acting Undersecretary for Intelligence Brian Murphy tells @GStephanopoulos about his decision to become a whistleblower during Trump administration. https://t.co/QbAIemXpov pic.twitter.com/0bm0vsYZb9

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 26, 2021

“There was intense pressure to try to take intelligence and fit a political narrative,” Murphy said Sunday. “When I got to DHS, it was all about politics.”

Watch the full interview, below.