On December 8, 2012, former U.S. cybersecurity chief Christopher Krebs filed a lawsuit against Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova, who has claimed he should be “shot.
According to The New York Times, the lawsuit alleges that Joe diGenova and the Trump campaign defamed and caused emotional distress to Krebs. Krebs said he received death threats on social media sites and in emails, forcing him and his family to leave their home to escape danger.
In an interview with the right-wing U.S. news channel Newsmax, DiGenova said Krebs should have been “dragged out at dawn and shot. But DiGenova later told the Washington Post last week that he was joking.
The lawsuit says the president, his campaign and Newsmax have been engaged in a “deliberate and harmful conspiracy theory” to defame Krebs and other Republicans who believe the presidential election was not rigged as Trump claims.
After the U.S. presidential election, Krebs and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a statement saying that the 2020 election is more secure than any other election in U.S. history.
After the statement was released, it was reported that Krebs had expected to be fired. A few days later, he was fired by Trump, who also sent out a statement calling Krebs’ statement about election security “inaccurate.
In his lawsuit, Krebs is seeking monetary damages and asking the media to remove the video of Trump’s campaign attorney, DiGenova. Neither Trump’s campaign nor Newsmax has responded to media requests for comment.
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