DHS cybersecurity director subtweets Trump after being fired by scheme of tweet

Christopher Krebs can enjoy the closing laugh.

Donald Trump fired the (now aged) director of the Division of Website online of birth Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Company unhurried Tuesday, after the latter countered the president’s lies about the safety of the U.S. election. Rapidly after Trump introduced his canning of Krebs by scheme of (what else) a tweet, Krebs aged his non-public, verified Twitter fable to let both the sphere and Trump know that the company he previously led did, if fact be told, oversee a stable election. 

“Honored to encourage,” he wrote. “We did it right. Defend This day, Rep Tomrorow [sic].” 

This no longer-so-thinly veiled jab at Trump, who has over and over asserted, baselessly, that there changed into neatly-liked voter fraud within the 2020 election, follows Krebs’ insistence earlier within the day that the vote changed into no longer if fact be told rife with fraud. 

“On allegations that election systems had been manipulated, 59 election security consultants all agree, ‘in every case of which we’re mindful, these claims either enjoy been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent,'” wrote Krebs from his then-legit Twitter fable. 

Donald Trump couldn’t prefer it while you counter his lies with facts, and while you are unlucky adequate to encourage at his pleasure then he can fire you for talking the real fact. That doesn’t swap the real fact, nonetheless, that consultants declared the 2020 U.S. election “the most stable in American history” — and that Trump lost. 

Krebs shall be out of a job as of Tuesday, nonetheless reach January he’ll completely be support on his toes. Trump, on the completely different hand, shall be out on the road.