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Trump Fires Cybersecurity Official

VOA News

   President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on Twitter that he had fired
   Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
   Agency, for a recent statement Krebs made regarding election security.

   Krebs has consistently debunked allegations of voter fraud over the
   past week, tweeting, "On allegations that election systems were
   manipulated, 59 election security experts all agree, 'in every case of
   which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or
   are technically incoherent.' "

   On Tuesday, Trump tweeted that Krebs's statements were "highly
   inaccurate," alleging "massive improprieties and fraud." Trump's tweet
   was labeled as "disputed" by Twitter.

   "Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as
   Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency," he
   tweeted.

     The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020
     Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive
     improprieties and fraud - including dead people voting, Poll
     Watchers not allowed into polling locations, "glitches" in the
     voting machines which changed...
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [1]November 18, 2020

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328852352787484677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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