No matter how often he tries to wish it away or shrug it off, Donald Trump is haunted by Russian meddling in U.S. elections — including the one that is now less than two months away.

The latest chapter in the saga comes in a whistleblower complaint filed by a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security, Brian Murphy, and released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee.

In it, Murphy says that in July acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf, a Trump appointee, told him that an intelligence report about Russian activities promoting Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign should be withheld because it “made the president look bad,” the Washington Post reports.

Murphy also says that two months earlier, Wolf told him to stop producing intelligence assessments on Russia and shift the focus on election interference to China and Iran — and that “these instructions specifically originated from White House National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien,” the Post says.

The complaint states that Murphy told Wolf  he would not comply with the orders because “it was improper to hold a vetted intelligence product for reasons [of] political embarrassment.”

Soon after that, Murphy lost his position as head of the DHS intelligence branch.

Russia was not the only topic that drew the attention of Murphy’s superiors.

The 24-page whistleblower complaint says DHS’s second highest official, Kenneth Cuccinelli, ordered Murphy “to modify intelligence assessments to make the threat of white supremacy ‘appear less severe’ and include information on violent ‘left-wing’ groups,” reports the New York Times.

“Trump himself has regularly downplayed the threat of white supremacist violence during his presidency, most notably when he said there were some ‘fine people’ among the extremists who sparked violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017,” notes CNN, which broke the news about the whistleblower report. 

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that Murphy’s complaint “outlines grave and disturbing allegations that senior White House and Department of Homeland Security officials improperly sought to politicize, manipulate, and censor intelligence” to help Trump politically.

“This puts our nation and its security at grave risk,” Schiff says.

Murphy is expected to testify before the House Intelligence Committee later this month.