In a pair of tweets published on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump announced that he "terminated" Chris Krebs, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), over a recent statement calling the recent presidential election the most secure in US history.
Trump claimed the statement was "highly inaccurate," citing instead "massive improprieties and fraud" in an election he lost to Democrat candidate Joe Biden.
A CISA spokesperson was not available for comment; however, Krebs confirmed the firing in a tweet from his personal account.
Prior to being terminated today, Krebs served as CISA Director for exactly two years and one day, since November 16, 2018, when the agency was formally founded.
Rumors that Trump was looking to fire the CISA top official began circulating last week when Krebs told multiple associates that he expected to be fired him following the agency's efforts to counter voter disinformation campaigns during the recent election.
According to a Reuters report, Krebs got on Trump's bad side after establishing and running Rumor Control, a web page on the CISA website where CISA experts debunked election fraud rumors, many of which the US president was actively promoting during and after the election as facts on his Twitter account.
Following the Reuters report, several Democrat officials and cyber-security experts came to Krebs' defense.
Cyberscoop reported that while multiple Republican lawmakers previously lauded Krebs' work at CISA in previous months, none came to his defense after drawing Trump's ire.
The Krebs firing also comes after last week President Trump also terminated Defense Secretary Mark Esper after Trump and Esper had disagreements, with Trump pushing Esper to use the military to crack down on Black Lives Matter protests.
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