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• @realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x

  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...

• @realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x

  ...votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

• @c_c_krebs @c_c_krebs on x

  Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomrorow. #Protect2020

• @cisakrebs @cisakrebs on x

  ICYMI: 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.” #Protect2020 https://twitter.com/...

• @dnvolz @dnvolz on x

  I'm told Chris Krebs' deputy, Matt Travis, has also RESIGNED tonight after White House made clear to him he would not be taking the helm of the agency. Brandon Wales, a career official and the third-highest ranking official at CISA, is expected to now serve as acting director.

• @kylegriffin1 Kyle Griffin on x

  CISA Deputy Director Matt Travis, the No. 2 official at the agency, resigned in the wake of Chris Krebs' firing. Travis resigned after the White House and Chad Wolf made clear he would not take the helm at CISA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @jackhcable Jack Cable on x

  It's been an honor to work under @CISAKrebs to advance the state of election security. Election security is not political. Director Krebs should be commended for his nonpartisan approach to protecting democracy and ensuring a secure 2020 election.

• @frankfigliuzzi1 Frank Figliuzzi on x

  Chris Krebs kept our election safe - Trump fired him. https://www.cnbc.com/... #chriskrebs

• @rorycooper Rory Cooper on x

  Helping ensure our elections are secure and the public has accurate information is a fireable offense in America for 64 more days. https://twitter.com/...

• @malwarejake Jake Williams on x

  I've said this before, but I'll say it again. There aren't many in government cybersecurity who have the full trust of the community. @CISAKrebs is one of those people. His firing has set back public-private partnership on cybersecurity by many years. 1/3 https://twitter.com/...

• @susan_hennessey Susan Hennessey on x

  This is sad and pathetic. Chris did an extraordinary job under impossible conditions and the country owes him a debt. That said, I'm not sure Trump thought this one through. Krebs is now free to speak or testify as openly as he'd like about the integrity of the election. https://…

• @ericliptonnyt Eric Lipton on x

  This is what Chris Krebs, the fed gov top cybersecurity, had to say earlier today—before Trump fired him via a Tweet. Trump wants an alternative reality. He will use his power to get it. https://twitter.com/...

• @mkraju Manu Raju on x

  Trump fires federal official who says the elections were safe and secure. Here was the statement that angered Trump, issued by his own Department of Homeland Security https://www.cisa.gov/... https://twitter.com/...

• @dnvolz @dnvolz on x

  Krebs occupied a unique space in the Trump admin, earning bipartisan support for the work he was doing to protect the 2018/2020 elections while avoiding the ire of the president—until recently. Some Dems hoped he might stay on in the Biden administration. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @replloyddoggett Lloyd Doggett on x

  BREAKING: Trump says he has fired the Department of Homeland Security official who reported that this was the most secure election ever. In typical style, he purges a truthteller and riddles the announcement with corrosive, undemocratic, dangerous lies. https://www.google.com/...

• @dnvolz @dnvolz on x

  I'm told Krebs and others at CISA were not given a heads up that he was fired before Trump announced it on Twitter. Some CISA employees thought he might hang on because some aides in the White House were reluctant to make him a martyr. And yet. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @milestaylorusa Miles Taylor on x

  I know Chris Krebs. I worked with Chris Krebs. Donald Trump doesn't have a fraction of the character of Chris Krebs, and it's why he lost the presidency. Good riddance. https://twitter.com/...

• @howelloneill Patrick Howell O'Neill on x

  Chris Krebs has been fired as director of CISA after defending the accuracy of the 2020 election. In his tweet announcing the firing, Trump repeated numerous lies about voter fraud — several of which Krebs has been actively debunking on Twitter and on CISA's website.

• @kimzetter Kim Zetter on x

  Chris Krebs has posted from his personal Twitter account this response to Trump firing him: https://twitter.com/...

• @jaketapper Jake Tapper on x

  A source close to @C_C_Krebs says he always knew he might get in trouble for telling the truth while the president was spreading lies and conspiracy theories about the election. That said... 1/

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Hard to find a more respected public servant in the cybersecurity space than Chris Krebs. His ability to successfully make 2020 a free and fair election inevitably put him in the president's crosshairs. https://twitter.com/...

• @breakingnews @breakingnews on x

  President Trump has fired Chris Krebs, the director of CISA, over Krebs' statements debunking various myths about 2020 election voter fraud that were advanced by President Trump and his allies. https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @zoyd @zoyd on x

  @pwnallthethings fired for lack of sufficient corruption

• @simonwdc Simon Rosenberg on x

  Everyone whom the President fires can immediately start conferring with the Biden transition team, helping ease this delayed transition. https://twitter.com/...

• @pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x

  Once again the president says the quiet part out loud. The dismissal of Krebs is explicitly because he refused to endorse the president's lies about election integrity.

• @chrismegerian Chris Megerian on x

  The president is explicitly firing a Homeland Security official because he undermined false claims of fraud https://twitter.com/...

• @pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x

  An administration whose rampant corruption is unrelenting and always in your face, and yet bafflingly able to convince a staggering number of people that it's somehow acceptable.

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  House Intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff on Krebs' firing: https://twitter.com/...

• @jaketapper Jake Tapper on x

  3/ Krebs learned he had been fired when he read the president's tweet this evening.

• @ronwyden Ron Wyden on x

  Trump fired a government official for telling the truth so he can accelerate his lying about the election. Chris Krebs didn't deserve to be fired. https://twitter.com/...

• @juddapatow Judd Apatow on x

  No one ever mentions that these people have a lot of responsibilities, not just the issues Trump fires them over.Trump puts us all at risk when he fires people for revenge because he wants them to lie for him. He doesn't care about everything else they are doing for our country. …

• @jaketapper Jake Tapper on x

  US Government head of cyber security at DHS, fired for sharing the facts and truth about the election despite the desire for the opposite from the president, who is pushing lies and conspiracy theories: https://twitter.com/...

• @bgrueskin Bill Grueskin on x

  Looks like the WSJ edit page is really losing patience with Trump's election claims. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @davidaxelrod David Axelrod on x

  This thing is ending in a supernova of crazy. https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @abbydphillip Abby D. Phillip on x

  Trump just fired the head of cyber security and information security for the federal government because he pushed back on Trump's false and baseless claims of widespread election fraud. https://twitter.com/...

• @margarettalev Margaret Talev on x

  .@CISAKrebs = highly credible professional who previously worked in GWB admin and corporate world and places public service above partisanship https://twitter.com/...

• @repswalwell Rep. Eric Swalwell on x

  Thank you for protecting our election and speaking truth to power. Your job was to secure the vote not a presidency. We are grateful for your service. https://twitter.com/...

• @katyturnbc Katy Tur on x

  It's not just about elections. CISA has recently responded to a number of high-profile ransomware attacks against hospitals. Firing Krebs is “an opportunity for bad cyber actors to take advantage,” a fmr DHS official tells me. https://twitter.com/...

• @kylegriffin1 Kyle Griffin on x

  “I'm proud of the work we did at CISA,” Christopher Krebs told NBC News after the firing. “I'm proud of the teammates I had at CISA. We did it right.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @billkristol Bill Kristol on x

  Chris Krebs did a lot of work this year to help state and local officials pull off remarkably free and fair elections with record turnout, under difficult circumstances. For this, he was fired by Donald Trump.

• @theplumlinegs Greg Sargent on x

  Criminal president fires official from his own administration for vouching for the integrity of a free and fair election that he has lost. Virtually every elected Republican will shrug, and those who say Trump represents no threat to democracy will sneer that this is meaningless.…

• @vermontgmg Garrett M. Graff on x

  Trump's inability to even posit a plausible cover story for firing Krebs sends a chilling message about just how far the loser intends to fight the election results—and it amplifies a rolling national security crisis as Trump's loyalty purge continues. https://www.wired.com/...

• @mlevinereports Mike Levine on x

  This from Trump's top cyber official at DHS... https://twitter.com/...

• @howelloneill Patrick Howell O'Neill on x

  On top of everything else, Krebs put up a first ballot Hall of Fame streak of subtweets this week. Historic.

• @debramessing Debra Messing on x

  #Trump fired him because he did his job well & kept our elections SAFE &SECURE. 45 wanted him to certify there was fraud. He wouldn't. Because it didn't happen. He is a man of integrity. 🚨Trump says DHS cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs has been terminated https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @elissabeth @elissabeth on x

  Note that the Trump admin also tried to send reporters after Kreb's reputation.

• @jaketapper Jake Tapper on x

  2/ That said, Krebs realized he might be fired when in recent days media organizations that tend to do the bidding of the Trump White House started taking shots at him, and word spread that the White House was going to start attacking him personally. ...