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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Top U.S. cybersecurity official fired by Republican President Donald Trump for saying the Nov. 3 election was the safest in U.S. history said Friday that Trump’s allegations of election fraud and his allies are “a sham”.
Chris Krebs, former director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told CBS 60 Minutes that the allegations of US voting machines manipulated by foreign countries were unfounded.
Sidney Powell, a Trump attorney released by Trump’s legal team this week, had put forward a conspiracy theory that electoral systems created in Venezuela at the behest of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez helped tip the US election to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden. . .
She and others have also alleged that voting machines had switched votes from Trump to Biden and that some of the US voting information was stored on servers in Germany.
“All votes in the United States of America are counted in the United States of America. Period,” Krebs said, in an excerpt broadcast by CBS Evening News. The full 60-minute interview will air on Sunday. Krebs was fired by Trump on November 17 after calling the election “the safest in American history.”
“There is no evidence that any machine that I know of has been manipulated by a foreign power,” Krebs said, calling such accusations “ridiculous claims.” He added: “The American people must have 100% confidence in their vote.”
Biden won the election with 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232. He leads Trump by more than six million in the popular vote.
Trump and his attorneys continue to claim, without evidence, that the election was stolen through widespread fraud and that Trump is the winner. Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for Biden.
(Reporting by Tim Reid; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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