Security News > 2020 > November > Trump fires cybersecurity boss Chris Krebs for doing his job: Securing the election and telling the truth about it

President Donald Trump tonight fired the boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the very organisation his administration formed with the aim of shoring up America's computer networks from hackers.

The Trump 2020 campaign and the Tweeter-in-Chief both challenge that assessment of election security, and allege widespread voter fraud, but have yet to offer any hard evidence of wrongdoing.

Leaders of other agencies that co-signed the aforementioned statement with Krebs on election security appear not to have been dismissed at the time of writing, leaving the singling-out of Krebs an oddity.

Trump gave his team kudos for succeeding in that aim with another tweet that opened: "The only thing secure about our 2020 Election was that it was virtually impenetrable by foreign powers. On that, the Trump Administration takes great credit."

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