Outgoing President Donald Trump fired the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity chief in a tweet on Tuesday evening, falsely claiming that Chris Krebs had covered up improprieties and fraud in the 2020 U.S. election.
Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS, was fired by tweet late Tuesday, just days after the former Microsoft employee said there was no evidence that any voting system used in 2020 was compromised, lost, or involved altered ballots, and that the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history.” Reuters reported last week that the top election security official had expected to be fired.
