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Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher Krebs speaks to reporters in Arlington, Va., March 3, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque\/Reuters)<\/p><\/div>\n
Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova declared Monday that the Trump administration\u2019s former cybersecurity chief deserves to be put to death for claiming that the presidential election was\u00a0the \u201cmost secure\u201d in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
President Trump fired Chris Krebs, his head of cybersecurity,\u00a0earlier this month after Krebs disputed Trump\u2019s claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him. Krebs found himself at odds with the president after he called the\u00a0election<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cmost secure in United States history.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnybody who thinks the election went well, like that idiot Krebs who used to be the head of cybersecurity that guy is a class A moron. He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot,\u201d diGenova, who is also a former U.S. Attorney, said during an appearance on the Howie Carr show, broadcast on Newsmax, in comments first\u00a0reported by\u00a0The Bulwark<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Before he was fired by Trump in a tweet, Krebs had served as the director of the\u00a0Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security since November, 2018.<\/p>\n In his tweet announcing Krebs\u2019s termination, Trump called his former cybersecurity chief\u2019s assessment of the\u00a0election\u2019s security \u201chighly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud \u2013 including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, \u2018glitches\u2019 in the voting machines which changed votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more.\u201d<\/p>\n Krebs appeared on CBS News\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d on Sunday and doubled down on his defense of the election\u2019s integrity.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no foreign power that is flipping votes. There\u2019s no domestic actor flipping votes.\u00a0I did it right. We did it right. This was a secure election,\u201d Krebs said in the interview.<\/p>\n The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on diGenova\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n The Trump legal team has failed to produce evidence of fraud widespread enough to change the election outcome despite claiming such fraud occurred, and many of the campaign\u2019s legal challenges to the election results in swing states won by Joe Biden have already fallen flat. Nevertheless, DiGenova claimed as recently as last week that the level of election fraud and deception that took place in Pennsylvania is \u201ctruly staggering.\u201d<\/p>\n