Like, when a President who disagrees publicly with his own intelligence agencies claims that something is the result of intelligence, I am very sceptical.

I'm very sceptical of US intelligence justifications in general (and have been since 2003) but even more so under the current administration.

"I love FT and I subscribe to the paper but I see more anti-trump sentiment than an actual argument there. "

I really don't see any anti-Trump sentiment there, can you clarify what you mean?