Trump Fires Top Cybersecurity Chief Christopher Krebs After He Calls Election ‘Most Secure Ever’
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he had fired the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Christopher Krebs. Krebs, who has been in the position since 2018, and his agency have been studying the 2020 election to determine if claims of voter fraud were true. After Krebs and CISA concluded that the election “was the most secure in American history,” Trump fired, him, and said his research was “highly inaccurate.”Trump dismissed one of the few employees he had that had support from across the aisle.“Pre...