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Adam Schiff, the Democratic California congressman who chairs the House intelligence committee, has responded to the news, saying that Trump’s move to fire Krebs is “ pathetic and predictable from a president who views truth as his enemy”.
Director Krebs worked diligently to safeguard our elections from interference and misinformation.
He protected our democracy. And spoke truth to power.
That’s why Trump retaliated and fired him.
It’s pathetic and predictable from a president who views truth as his enemy.
Twitter quickly flagged the tweets in which Trump announced Krebs’ firing because the repeated many of the baseless election fraud claims the president has been making in recent weeks.
Unwilling to accept reality and concede the election, Trump has doubled down on conspiracy theories about election fraud. His administration has blocked the Biden transition team from receiving briefings, but now that Krebs is no longer working in an official capacity - the incoming administration may be able to glean non-classified briefings from the former cybersecurity official.
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