18 November 2020WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 26: U.S. President Donald Trump stands next to Butter, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, after giving him a presidential pardon during the traditional event in the Rose Garden of the White House November 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. The turkey pardon was made official in 1989 under former President George H.W. Bush, who was continuing an informal tradition started by President Harry Truman in 1947.
Trump said on Twitter on Tuesday that Krebs had assured people in a “highly inaccurate” statement that the election had been secure when there were “massive improprieties and fraud -including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations,” and voting machine errors that flipped votes from Trump to Biden.
He angered the White House over a website run by CISA dubbed “Rumor Control,” which debunks misinformation about the election, according to the three people familiar with the matter.Krebs was not given notice of Trump’s plan to fire him on Tuesday evening, according to a person familiar with the matter, and learned of the decision through Twitter.
White House officials previously complained about CISA content that pushed back against numerous false claims about the election, including that Democrats were behind a mass election fraud scheme. CISA officials declined to delete accurate information.