On Tuesday night (Nov. 17), President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he had relieved Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security, of his duties.
Trump tweeted that Chris Krebs’ recent statements about the security of the 2020 election were not credible because of a wide range of misconduct and fraud in the election, including dead people voting, denying observers access to polling places, voting machine “glitches” that caused ballots cast for Trump to go to Biden, and post-election voting.
“Accordingly, Chris Krebs is relieved of his duties as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, effective immediately,” Kawakami said.
Krebs was in charge of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, with primary responsibility for leading the team to protect U.S. elections.CISA works with state and local officials who host U.S. elections, as well as private companies that provide voting equipment to address cybersecurity and other threats, while monitoring voting and tabulation from a control room at its headquarters near Washington, D.C. The department is also working with industry and utilities to protect the U.S. industrial base and power grid from threats.
With the outcome of the U.S. election currently uncertain, the Trump campaign has filed early legal action in a number of states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia, alleging various election fraud and unconstitutional practices.
But on November 12, CISA issued a statement disputing the allegations, saying that “the November 3 election was the safest election in U.S. history.
The statement said, “There is no evidence that any voting system ever deleted, lost or tampered with a ballot, or in any way compromised a ballot.”
Some of the allegations of election integrity, including by President Donald Trump’s legal team, have focused on the voting systems of Dominion and Smartmatic. Both companies have denied the public’s concerns about their systems.
CISA did not disclose in its statement that Dominion is a member of CISA’s Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council (SCC), one of the two entities that issued the CISA statement.
In addition, Smartmatic, an independent voting machine company that has received a great deal of attention, is also a member of the SCC.
Dominion was founded in Canada, but its machines are never used to count or tabulate votes in Canadian federal elections.
Trump’s personal attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is representing the Trump campaign in the lawsuit in Pennsylvania. Giuliani said Tuesday, “I believe we’ve amassed enough evidence in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.”
One of Trump’s lawyers, former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, has said the election is rife with evidence of “a massive, concerted effort to steal this election.
Powell recently said that the president’s legal team has been presented with substantial evidence of voter fraud and other irregularities, telling Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo that she has enough evidence to launch a wide-ranging criminal investigation and that “we’re getting ready to flip the election results in a number of states.
On Monday, Powell unveiled core evidence to outsiders, with key witnesses testifying that voting machine Dominion equipment used in the U.S. is suspected to have been designed to tamper with voter results undetected.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chairman Trey Trainor tweeted Tuesday that if Powell said there was rampant election fraud, he believed her.
Trainor told Newsmax and OANN News earlier in the day that he believes actions that don’t allow poll watchers to get close to poll tabulation sites may involve election fraud.
Powell welcomed the firing of Krebs on Twitter after Traynor announced the firing.
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