US: unprecedented purge of Donald Trump in the Pentagon and the Security services
The outgoing US president, Donald Trump, on Tuesday fired the director of the cybersecurity agency, who last week said that the last presidential elections were
"the safest in history."
"The recent statement by
Chris Krebs
on the security of the 2020 elections was very inaccurate, as
there were massive fraud and irregularities,
" the president said on his Twitter account.
"Therefore," Trump added, "with immediate effect, Chris Krebs has been fired as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)," a body that belongs to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In his series of tweets, the president said: "The only sure thing in our 2020 elections was that they were
practically impenetrable for foreign powers.
In this, the Trump Administration takes great credit."
This decision by Trump comes after the CISA, through its coordination committee for electoral infrastructure, argued last Thursday that the elections were "the safest in history."
"There is no evidence that
any voting system has eliminated or lost votes,
changed votes or been affected in any way," he said in a statement that had a lot of impact by directly contradicting Trump's allegations of fraud.
"Although," he added, "we know that there are many unsubstantiated claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you that we have
the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections
and you should also have it."
Krebs has been the first director of the CISA,
a position created in 2018 by Trump
since until then the agency was led by an undersecretary of DHS.
Two weeks before the elections,
Trump still does not recognize the triumph of the president-elect, Joe Biden,
a fact that he attributes without proof to a fraud orchestrated against him by the Democrats.
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