Trump fired the head of the U.S. Cyber Security Agency, who refuted allegations of voter fraud.
Christopher Krebs’s dismissal comes against the backdrop of a shift in senior officials who are considered not to be loyal enough to the President.
Donald Trump fired the director of the Federal Agency, which was responsible for ensuring the integrity of the 2020 elections, and dismissed unfounded allegations of voter fraud made by the President.
Trump fired Christopher Krebs, who was the director of the National Security Agency for Cyber Security and Infrastructure (Cisa), on Twitter on Tuesday, saying that Krebs “was fired” and that his recent statement on election security was “extremely inaccurate”.
The dismissal of Krebs appointed by Trump occurs because Trump refuses to acknowledge the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and dismisses high-ranking officials who are not deemed to be sufficiently loyal. He fires Mark Esper, the Minister of Defence, on 9 November as part of a wider shake-up that put Trump’s loyalists in top positions at the Pentagon.
Krebs made it clear that he was expecting to be fired. Last week, his agency published a statement refuting allegations of widespread voter fraud. “The November 3 election was the safest election in American history,” the statement said. “There is no evidence that any voting system removed or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised”.