President Donald Trump has fired Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs, who led efforts to defend last week's election against foreign interference and rejected Trump's baseless claims of rampant voter fraud.
Trump announced the firing in a tweet late Tuesday, saying it was "effective immediately."
Krebs, the director of DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, had been expecting to be fired since just after Election Day, people familiar with his thinking told POLITICO. His agency's Rumor Control website debunked several conspiracy theories being promoted by Trump and his supporters, including claims of mass voting by dead people, and Krebs himself has dismissed such right-wing theories as "nonsense."
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