United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired a top election official who rejected his claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential pol...
United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired a top election official who rejected his claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential polls.
Trump announced the decision on Twitter. “Votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more,” he said. “Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.”
The US president said that Krebs’ recent statement on the security of the presidential election was highly inaccurate, “in that there were massive improprieties and fraud – including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, “glitches” in the voting machines which changed.” Both of Trump’s tweets were flagged by the microblogging site.
...votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020
Krebs, on the other hand, defended his stance. “Honored to serve,” he tweeted. “We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomorrow.”
Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomrorow. #Protect2020
— Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) November 18, 2020
In the run-up to the elections, the top official had on several occasions contradicted Trump’s false claims about mail-in ballots, though not in an outright manner, according to...
