President Donald Trump said on Twitter he has fired Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, yet again ranting about baseless claims of election fraud
The bitter and soon to be ex-president is now sacking people who don’t back up his false fraud claims
President Donald Trump has fired his cybersecurity director for correctly saying the US election was safe from fraud.
Trump made the announcement, that Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs had been removed from his post, on Twitter amid yet more baseless claims of the election he lost being ‘rigged’.
The Republican said Krebs had assured people in a “highly inaccurate” statement that the election had been secure
when there were “massive improprieties and fraud – including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations,” and voting machine errors that flipped votes to the winner Joe Biden.
None of these claims have been substantiated and so far all of Trump’s legal efforts to overturn results in the election have failed.
Dozens of election security experts on Monday released a letter saying claims of major hacks were unsubstantiated and absurd.
But Krebs angered the White House over a website run by CISA dubbed ‘Rumor Control,’ which debunks misinformation about the election, and had even warned of his own potential sacking last week.
Twitter once again slapped warning labels on Trump’s posts, noting: “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”
Krebs headed CISA from its inception two years ago, but the agency did not respond to a request for comment after his sacking.
On his own Twitter account, Krebs did not back down, writing: “Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today,
Secure Tomorrow.
