President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired top cybersecurity official Chris Krebs, accusing him without evidence of making a "highly inaccurate" statement affirming the Nov. 3 election was secure and rejecting claims of fraud.
According to CNN, Trump fired Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security, in a tweet. He directly the decision to Krebs' statement that said there is no evidence suggesting the elections had been compromised.
"The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud," Trump wrote in a tweet that also repeated other baseless conspiracy theories about the election and was flagged by Twitter as "disputed."
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Krebs' work in protecting the election from hackers and combating disinformation about the vote won praise from lawmakers of both parties as well as state and election officials around the country. But he drew the ire of Trump and his allies, who were irked over his refusal to support allegations of election meddling.
Dozens of election security experts on Monday released a letter saying claims of major hacks were unsubstantiated and absurd on their face.
