US election: Trump fires security official who rejected fraud claims

Washington: Donald Trump announced Tuesday he had fired the government’s top election security official, who had rejected the president’s claims of “massive” fraud in the vote he lost to Joe Biden.

“The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud,” Trump wrote in a tweet.

“Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.”