Christopher Krebs, the ex-director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said he regrets not being able to say goodbye to his team prior to his dismissal on Nov. 17.
Krebs, who was fired by President Trump not long after the election, said he wasn’t shocked by his dismissal. Krebs had long refused to support the president’s claims there was widespread voter fraud that took place in the election.
“I don’t know if I was necessarily surprised. It’s not how I wanted to go out,” Krebs said in an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes. “The thing that upsets me the most about that is I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to my team. And I’d worked with them for three and a half years, in the trenches. Building an agency, putting CISA on the national stage. And I love that team.”
Krebs’s firing came soon after his agency released a statement in direct opposition to Trump’s claims of voter fraud.
“The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history,” part of the statement read. “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes or changed votes or was in any way compromised.”
Trump contested that sentiment in a tweet, calling it “highly inaccurate,” alleging of “massive improprieties and fraud,” including dead people voting and poll watchers not being allowed in polling locations.
Trump has been pushing allegations of voter fraud before the results of the election were even finalized by media outlets. Several outlets called President-elect Joe Biden the victor of the election almost three weeks ago.
Trump has yet to concede to Biden and remains engaged in litigation in several states. He said on Thursday that it would be “very hard” to concede to Biden if the Electoral College determines him as the winner in December.
