President Donald Trump fired the country’s leading cybersecurity official via Twitter late Tuesday, part of a thread promoting the president’s unsubstantiated claims about rampant fraud in the 2020 election.
Trump tweeted that Chris Krebs, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, "has been terminated," referencing a recent statement about alleged voter fraud as "highly inaccurate."
Twitter immediately flagged Trump's tweets as "disputed."
The statement in question, released Thursday by Krebs’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, read in bold letting: "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
Krebs headed up cybersecurity and information security for the federal government. He's served in the role since November 2018. Krebs is one of many federal, state and local election officials that have defended the integrity of the results, despite the president's unproven claims.
Trump’s allegations of voter fraud are nothing new.
The president has been pushing the conspiracy theories, even before the election and with increased frequency since Election Night. He has yet to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, who has won the election handily according to projections from several outlets.
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