President Donald Trump ordered the federal agencies on Wednesday to revoke security authorizations and review the activities of two former high -level government officials who questioned their claims of electoral fraud and their conduct in their first mandate.
Christopher Krebs, former head of the main cybersecurity agency of the federal government, said Joe Biden won the 2020 elections, contradicting Trump’s claim that the elections were stolen.
Miles Taylor, a former official of the Department of National Security, wrote an anonymous memory that criticized the management of Trump of classified documents and other conduct during his first mandate.
A memorandum signed that Trump ordered the Attorney General and the Secretary of National Security to take all appropriate measures to review “Krebs activities. Another ordered the Secretary of National Security to review Taylor’s activities as a government employee.
Krebs related memorandum described him as a “significant bad faith actor who armed and abused his government authority.”
The other memorando said that Taylor “fueled the dissension by manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of an alleged ‘resistance’ within the federal government.”
Krebs declined to comment. Taylor said in X that he was not surprised by Trump’s actions.
“I said this would happen,” Taylor wrote. “Disidence is not illegal. It is certainly not treacherous. America is directed by a dark path.”
He added: “A man has never proven to be the point of another man.”
Taylor wrote an anonymous opinion article while working in the National Security Department in which he said that many senior administration officials were trying to limit Trump’s impulses and frustrate his agenda.
In his memoirs, Taylor describes having heard about Trump’s interest in “playing” the phones of White House attendees in an attempt to boost media leaks.
Krebs was the first director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which during the Trump administration began offering cybernetic help and physical security to state and local electoral officials.
Trump fired Krebs on a tweet in November 2020 for the agency’s rumor control website, which corrected the falsehoods about electoral integrity, many of which Trump and his allies promoted.
Krebs was among the most vocal government officials that advise the infused statements about the manipulation of the elections, particularly addressing a conspiracy theory focused on the Dominion voting systems machines that Trump’s lawyers have pressed.
As an outstanding critic of Trump’s false claims that the 2020 elections were stolen, Krebs has been a consistent target for Trump.
Chloe Atkins contributed.
