Donald Trump fires election security chief who said US vote was secure

Donald Trump has fired the election security chief who said that the US vote in the 2020 presidential election was secure.

President Trump said he "terminated" Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) chief Chris Krebs because he made "highly inaccurate" remarks on vote integrity, the BBC reports.

Despite Joe Biden's projected presidential win, Trump has so far refused to concede the election and has repeatedly said that he won, citing unsubstantiated claims of "massive" voter fraud.

This comes after the BBC reports election officials' claims that the 2020 event was the "most secure" in American history.

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However, Krebs is not the first elected official to have lost his position for contradicting the president, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper was also fired following reports that Trump doubted his loyalty, the BBC revealed.

Now, it is being speculated that prior to Joe Biden's inauguration in January, Trump will also fire the CIA director Gina Haspel and FBI director Christopher Wray.

Krebs reportedly only discovered that he had lost his position after reading President Trump's tweets on Tuesday.

Following his dismissal, Krebs tweeted: "Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomrorow [sic]. #Protect2020"

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Krebs had run the agency for two years after it was created following allegations of Russian interference in the 2020 election.

Hours before he lost his job, Krebs tweeted in contradiction of President Trump's claim that a number of voting machines in various states had switched ballots in favor of his Democratic rival, Biden.

Krebs tweeted: "ICYMI: On allegations that election systems were manipulated, 59 election security experts all agree, 'in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.' #Protect2020".

This post, however, and a number of others, now appear to have been deleted from Krebs' Twitter account.

Krebs was one of the officials to declare the 2020 election the "most secure in American history" while rejecting "unfounded claims" of mass fraud.

While this statement did not name the president in its debunking of the claims, Krebs did retweet a Twitter post by an election law expert that day which read: "Please don't retweet wild and baseless claims about voting machines, even if they're made by the president."