President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate two former officials from his first administration who openly betrayed him, saying he thinks one of them is “guilty of treason.”
The orders to review the activities and revoke security clearances of former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher Krebs and former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief of Staff Miles Taylor were signed by Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
Krebs was fired via a Trump tweet in November 2020 for releasing a statement claiming the presidential election “was the most secure in American history,” and denouncing “unfounded claims” that Joe Biden was not the true winner.
Trump’s post at the time read:
The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud — including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, ‘glitches’ in the voting machines which changed votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
