Trump fires DHS official who called election secure

President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the federal agency that vowed for the reliability of the 2020 election. Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was highly inaccurate.

While abrupt, the removal from office was hardly surprising. Krebs, director of the Cyber-security and Infrastructure Security Agency, had offered a stream of statements and tweets over the past week attesting to the integrity of the election, directly contradicting Trump’s false assertions of widespread fraud without mentioning the president by name. The firing of Krebs, a Trump appointee, comes as Trump is refusing to recognize the victory of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and removing high-level officials seen as insufficiently loyal.