Trump Fires Top Cybersecurity Official Who Worked to Safeguard Elections

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President Trump fired a top cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security who had been vocal in batting down disinformation about election results

WASHINGTON—President Trump has fired Chris Krebs, the top cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security, who oversaw efforts to safeguard the presidential election from foreign interference and domestic disinformation campaigns.

 

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Must be a deep state player

Trump is your guy WSJ. You own him & share the blood on his hands.

🎊 I see the distinction clearly: He fired Krebs, bc Krebs worked for the poeple, not his highness.

Sick!!!

For watching Russians and Chinese, while dirty Dem operatives slip in voting software back door. That’ll get one fired alright.

There is no cybersecurity 'breach' since the voting machines worked EXACTLY as they were programmed to... Listen to clips from the affidavit..

The has normalized DJT but so has the MSM. Last week ran article brithume RT touting DJT accomplishments and downplaying his “personality”. In other words, they think getting neocon judges installed and tax cuts (major windfall to corporations) was important. WRONG.

Hitler reincarnation ?

Ah the deep state......I hear Freddy Mercury and Queen singing.....'And another one bites the dust.'

This is a man of integrity, he would be a good hire for Biden.

When you fail at your job, you get fired,

He fired Krebs for telling the truth. Sooner Trump leaves healthier our country will be.

Glad he got fired. Someone who covers up the fraud by denying it exist needs to go.

So grateful the people voted out the despotism of realDonaldTrump . President-elect JoeBiden , will you please rehire chriskrebs along with captaincrozier ?

Trump keeps only sycophants around.

Sexy_NyomiXX And deploy Eric and Junior Donnie to a frontline combat zone and tell them the bad guys across enemy lines are endangered wild animals but don’t tell them that these animals aren’t like the ones they’re used to hunting and that these fuckers shoot back! They’ll 💩themselves!

arrest Joe

Sexy_NyomiXX And now he is BREAKING a campaign promise by telegraphing military actions. saying he’s going to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, 25th Amendment his ass before he starts another war that doesn’t have to be and in the meantime have Eric, Junior Donnie put a uniform on!

It is just surreal that right now the US is no different that any other banana republic out there, take your pick.

WOW, what a surprise. Donnie fired the guy who basically said the election was fair, so Donnie lost. I would have never thought that Donnie would do something like that. Such a shock, I’m speechless.

THANK YOU ChrisKrebs for all you have done for our country!!! And thanks for your Integrity!! PASS IT ON

And now he will appoint an unqualified yes-man to that very important position.

The dictator reigns on

Biden will hire him back and give him a bonus. The things that Trump is doing only dictators have done throughout the centuries.

How many does this make?

Trump is gonna burn the entire house down. Pathetic shameful!

WSJ editorial board must be squirming. Unless of course they believe this to be a brilliant move, and going by how they gush over him, it’s completely possible.

The election computers were obviously compromised somehow. Either Krebs was paid off (my guess) or he's just too stupid for that demanding job. Either way, good riddance.

Chris Krebs is looking like a complete idiot now that high ranking Democrats have refuted his claim that the voting machines were secure.

Idiot president. Cult45 CoupClutzClan

No one ever heard of this guy until Trump fired him, but I’m sure he’s very important.. I’m pretty sure we could get rid of a lot more and we’d just fine.. probably better..

NeverVoteRepumblicansAgain What a long yard for Trump, Guilliani and allies in prisons. This is gross embarrassment of America from sore losers

Wonder what the Venn diagram for people who support his firing for spreading misinformation about the election and those with the critical thinking skills of turnips looks like? 🧐

No suprise, let's c him fire the Supreme court which just rejected another one of his garbage attempts 2 sabotage this election.

80 million voters can’t be fired! realDonaldTrump

Man he just couldn’t get behind the science on how 138k votes in MI could come in for Biden and not one vote for Trump...

This is what the guy gets from the American President for doing his job?

Trump proves once again that the organizing principle of his administration has been SPITE!

Trump’s owner told him to

A lot of people voted for this

Nice form of a job reference letter....

WTF kind of haircut is that?

Follow Christopher on Linkdln as he gets his old job back at Microsoft as their security chief. Richly rewarded for this.

Trump is now off his rocker! He fired the Defense Secretary so that he could take troops out of Iraq & Afghanistan, just to cause instability there and make trouble for Biden. Now he’s firing anyone who openly says the opposite of whatever he claims. And the GOP? THEY HUMOR HIM!

tRump is allergic to truth. It makes him sweat and the orange rolls off his face. Counting down 63 days left....

Destroying America before you leave right, actions have consequence

Nothing will stop the Trump team from proceeding with a legal inquiry. In addition, over 70 million Trump supporters fully endorse Trump's unwillingness to concede and his investigation into election fraud. They also expect to win & have Trump for another 4 yrs. See Dems meltdown

CCP_is_terrorist sucking all wealth out of USA!!! WallStreet are thieves!!!

Yeah! I Misrepresent data and I’m cured!

We're over here popping Champaign in celebration of Krebs being out. It cannot be overemphasized how corrupt our government is. He should fire them all.

This is shameful, officials shouldn’t fear retribution for speaking the truth (ofcourse if they have factual data to back it up).

How could anyone have allowed the purchase and use of vote counting machines of companies involved in fraudulent elections in so many countries?! It took Trump too long to fire this guy! And jail may be the right place for him... and many others.

If realDonaldTrump wants to fire someone, he needs to do it in person, not by tweet . soreloserinchief notagoodlook GeorgeTakei nytimes

He's dismantling to insert his agents to...insert more agents even after he is gone. This is not random. This is a coordinated plan. If nothing else, he's a schemer and a planner. Hopefully, those who have some iota of power see that he's creating and inserting trojan horses.

Oh great. He’s doing his best open the US to outside invasion.

Yeah, this seems like a totally normal thing you do in a healthy democracy.

Good 4 him.

Good

I like the argument that because there are no guidelines for the distance in election observers, they did not violate any laws So it is ok for election observers to have to use binoculars to observe the election because no one set distance guidelines?

How will the Republicans justify this? Just stand by silently as Trump fires those who refuse to give credibility to his lies. Is there anybody left in the Republican Party with a backbone and a shred of decency that will stand up to Trump?

President Elect Biden, you need to hire this guy DumpTrump BidenHarris2020

We know, we know. The machines only worked correctly in the states realDonaldTrump won. Weak and fragile losers living in an alternate reality. Just terrible.

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