Trump News – Live: Latest Updates As President Suffers Defeat In Pennsylvania Court

Chris Krebs, the cybersecurity director whom Donald Trump fired over claims that the 2020 election was the safest on record, has called the recent allegations made by the president and his allies “ridiculous.”

Krebs, who was removed as director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on November 17, made the remarks in an interview with CBS News, which will air on Sunday.

In a previously released excerpt, Krebs told CBS 60 Minutes that the Trump campaign’s allegations of foreign interference with American voting machines, as well as the tabulation of votes in foreign countries, were unfounded.

In a tweet praising Joe Biden, and a rather conspicuous subtweet from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris has promised that the president-elect will be a leader “our children can look up to.”

“A commander-in-chief who will respect our troops and keep our country safe, and a president for all Americans.” she added.

Outgoing President Donald Trump has shrugged off the defeat of his latest electoral lawsuit in Pennsylvania by falsely claiming that the state won “by a long shot.”

Trump alleged, without proof, that President-elect Joe Biden’s votes in Pennsylvania were created “out of thin air” in a tweet early Saturday morning.

The post, marked by Twitter as misleading, came hours after a federal court in Philadelphia dismissed its legal team’s challenge to the election result there.

Donald Trump angrily declared that Twitter was a threat to national security after #DiaperDon went viral following a press conference in which he repeatedly complained about perceived injustices.

“Twitter is sending totally false ‘Trends’ that have absolutely nothing to do with what is really trending in the world. They make it up, and only negative ‘things’, ”the president of the United States tweeted without providing proof in the early hours of Friday morning.

Trump didn’t say which trending topic was bothering him, but after Thursday’s press conference, in which he saw him furiously assault a reporter from behind a surprisingly small desk, the #DiaperDon hashtag rose to the top of the trend list. Twitter in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Former CIA director John Brennan has condemned the “criminal” and “extremely reckless” murder of a leading Iranian nuclear scientist.

The death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has already prompted promises of revenge by the Iranian authorities, who have blamed Israel for the attack. Neither Israel nor the United States have commented on the death, but the incident threatens to renew tensions between Iran and the United States.

Iran’s supreme leader vowed on Saturday to retaliate for the assassination of the Islamic Republic’s top nuclear scientist, whom the West and Israel believed was the architect of a secret Iranian weapons program.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s highest authority who says Tehran has never sought nuclear weapons, also pledged in his statement on Twitter to continue the work of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who died on Friday after a gunman ambushed him in his car near Tehran.

The assassination, which Iran’s president quickly blamed on Israel, threatens to trigger a new confrontation in the Middle East in the final weeks of US President Donald Trump’s term.

It could also complicate any efforts by President-elect Joe Biden to revive a detente with Tehran that was forged when he was in the Barack Obama administration. Trump pulled Washington out of the 2015 international nuclear pact agreed with Tehran.

Mr Khamenei said in his Twitter post that Iranian officials must take on the task of “pursuing this crime and punishing its perpetrators and those who commanded it.”

Israel’s N12 news channel said Israeli embassies had been put on high alert after Iranian threats of retaliation. A spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the minister did not comment on security regarding his representation abroad.

Israel has declined to comment on the killing. The White House, the Pentagon, the US State Department and the CIA also declined to comment, as did Biden’s transition team.

Joe Biden tweeted a speech to the American people last night in which he vowed to use the “vast powers” of the federal government to combat the coronavirus.

But, he said, the government “cannot do this alone”, urging people to do everything they can personally to limit the spread of the virus.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to appoint Cindy McCain as his ambassador to the UK.

The widow of the late Republican Senator John McCain has been a fierce critic of Donald Trump and crossed party lines to endorse Biden.

Ms. McCain, 66, is a well-known Anglophile and is believed to be the favorite for the job as a reward for helping Democrats win the state of Arizona.