US President Donald Trump has fired Chris Krebs, the country’s top cyber security officer via Twitter. According to Trump, Krebs allegedly made false statements by denying fraud during the US presidential election.
Krebs was the head of CISA, Homeland Security’s cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. There he was tasked with protecting the election process against interference by hackers.
The cybersecurity chief drew Trump’s wrath last week by denying his allegations of electoral fraud. “The Nov. 3 presidential election was the safest in United States history,” Krebs said at the time. “There is no evidence that votes have been wrongly counted.”
Krebs already told the news agency last week Reuters that he expected to be fired for denying electoral fraud.
The American president announced via Twitter that Krebs’s statement about the elections is incorrect and has therefore decided to fire. Trump said there were “massive disturbances and fraud, such as dead people voting and observers not having access to polling stations.” The president provided no evidence for this.
The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 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…
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Twitter posted a warning to the president’s tweets that they are unfounded.
Krebs in turn let through his Twitter-account know he was honored to have served the country. “We did what was right,” said Krebs.
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