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It was Donald Trump who elevated Chris Krebs to office. But then the director of the Cybersecurity Agency made public statements against his boss. And he used the Twitter app.
He got revenge from the president: Chris Krebs.
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Things could be better for Donald Trump in every way. In his attempt to somehow avoid his electoral defeat by Joe Biden, the president suffers one setback after another. Setbacks in the courts, setbacks in the decisive states, setbacks even in the Republican Party.
Perhaps that is why Trump has to settle for symbolic actions. On Monday night, he announced on Twitter that he had fired Chris Krebs, the director of the US cybersecurity agency.Krebs had been a director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, for the past two years. Trump himself had appointed him to the position. Last week, the agency issued a statement rejecting Trump’s continued claims of massive voter fraud. “The Nov. 3 election was the safest in the history of the United States,” said the statement, which was also joined by state election officials. (Read the post-election analysis here: Now the future of American democracy is at stake)
He knew what was coming
Cancer already knew what he would get out of it: Trump’s revenge. According to media reports, the former Microsoft manager said he expected his dismissal a few days ago. In his tweets Monday night, Trump claimed that the cancer agency’s position on the election was wrong. There have been great irregularities and fraud. These included votes from deceased persons and voting machine failures that would have moved votes from him to Biden.
Although Krebs’ release was expected, many in Washington expressed outrage at the move. Cancer ensured election security, supported local electoral authorities and stopped dangerous propaganda, said Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic House spokeswoman. But instead of rewarding him for his patriotic service, Trump fired him for telling the truth about his misinformation about the election.
A dispute that took place in the state of Michigan also caused quite a stir Monday night. There, initially, it seemed that Trump’s plan to avoid timely certification of election results and overturn Biden’s victory over the Republican-dominated state parliament could work. That would be a blatant evasion of the voters’ will, a maximum escalation: Biden had beaten Trump in Michigan by nearly 150,000 votes apart, so anything but close. And yet the scenario didn’t seem so absurd for a few hours.
“It looks like Biden will be president,” Republican Senator Mike Rounds told “Politico” web magazine.
In Wayne County, the constituency that includes the city of Detroit, Republican officials from the relevant electoral body blocked the certification of votes. They justified it with alleged irregularities in Detroit. Trump was already cheering on Twitter, his lawyer spoke of a “great victory.” But after a protest on social media and under pressure from voters in Detroit, Republicans in the body re-made their decision shortly after, and yet certified the election result.
This does not mean that Trump will not continue to do his best not to stop certification in other states. And he often has the support of Republican politicians. For example, in Nevada, where Biden defeated Trump by more than 33,000 votes: There, the president’s Republican allies filed a lawsuit Monday urging the court to declare Trump the winner of the Nevada election, or else that To cancel the result.
According to the electoral law, the experts such demands have no chanceprovided Trump’s attorneys cannot substantiate allegations of systematic fraud or serious misconduct. So far, Trump has failed virtually every lawsuit. As things stand right now, the ongoing recount of all votes in the state of Georgia will not turn a Biden victory into a Trump victory. Plus, the president is running out of time: Most states should have their election results certified by the end of November.
The question that remains is how the top Republicans will behave when it becomes increasingly clear that Trump cannot win a second term even through legal action. So far, almost no Republicans have publicly congratulated Biden on his election victory and responded to questions from journalists that Trump had the right to challenge the election in court. However, more recently, several senators indicated that they were beginning to leave this post. “It looks like Biden is going to be president,” Senator Mike Rounds told “Politico” web magazine.
