Trump fires cybersecurity boss Chris Krebs for doing his job: Securing the election and telling the truth about it

Trump fires cybersecurity boss Chris Krebs for doing his job: Securing the election and telling the truth about it

President Donald Trump tonight fired the boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the very organisation his administration formed with the aim of shoring up America's computer networks from hackers.


Director Christopher Krebs was “terminated” by a presidential tweet, on grounds that he last week co-signed a statement that assessed the 2020 US presidential election as “the most secure in American history.”


The Trump 2020 campaign and the Tweeter-in-Chief both challenge that assessment of election security, and allege widespread voter fraud, but have yet to offer any hard evidence of wrongdoing. Their flawed lawsuits seeking to overturn this year's US elections have largely collapsed, and Democrat Joe Biden is projected to win the Whit ..

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