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DONALD TRUMP HAS fired the director of the federal agency that endorsed the reliability of the 2020 presidential elections.
Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying that his recent statement defending election security was “very inaccurate.”
The firing of Krebs, appointed by Trump and director of the Infrastructure Security and Cybersecurity Agency, comes as Trump refuses to acknowledge Joe Biden’s victory and dismisses high-level officials deemed insufficiently loyal.
He fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on November 9, as part of a broader shakeup that put Trump loyalists in high-level positions in the Pentagon.
Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, led the agency, known as CISA, from its inception in the wake of Russian interference in the 2016 vote until this month’s election.
It earned bipartisan praise as CISA coordinated federal state and local efforts to defend electoral systems from domestic or foreign interference.
In recent days, Krebs has repeatedly rejected false claims that the elections were tainted.
Earlier yesterday, he tweeted a report that cited 59 election security experts and said that there is no credible evidence of computer fraud in the 2020 election result.
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Krebs, from his personal Twitter account, responded to his dismissal saying: “It is an honor to serve. We did it well. Defend today, secure tomorrow. “
He closed with the phrase “Protect 2020”, which had been his agency’s motto before the elections.
Officials at CISA and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, did not immediately comment.
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