White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Wednesday the top U.S. cybersecurity official, Chris Krebs, who was abruptly fired by President Trump Tuesday after contradicting …
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Wednesday the top U.S. cybersecurity official, Chris Krebs, who was abruptly fired by President Trump Tuesday after contradicting the president’s legal team and defending the 2020 election as the “most secure in American history,” was misleading citizens. McEnany and lawyers on Trump’s election integrity team assert that there is a great deal of evidence that points to the election system being compromised and of voter fraud, including hundreds of pages of sworn affidavits in Michigan and “real questions” in other battleground states. “The president has pointed out that he (Krebs) made an inaccurate statement. He actually made a few if you look at his Twitter feed. But, look, if you say that this was the most secure election in American history, as the president rightly pointed out, that may be true from a standpoint of foreign interference” but “to come out and say it’s the most secure election in American history, that’s just not an accurate statement, and it seems like a partisan attempt to just hit back at the president as he pursues important litigation,” McEnany said on Fox & Friends. On Nov.12, the federal cybersecurity and infrastructure agency (CISA) led by Krebs released a joint statement with other security partners that read, “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” directly contradicting evidence being gathered by Trump’s lawyers.
