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		</div><p>Donald Trump has fired the head of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 presidential election.</p>
<p>Mr Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate”.</p>
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<p>The firing of Mr Krebs, a Trump appointee and director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, comes as Mr Trump is refusing to recognise the victory of Joe Biden, and is removing high-level officials seen as insufficiently loyal.</p>
<blockquote><p>The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud &#8211; including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, “glitches” in the voting machines which changed&#8230;</p>
<p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020</p></blockquote>
<p>He fired defence secretary Mark Esper on November 9, part of a broader shake-up that put Trump loyalists in senior Pentagon positions.</p>
<p>Mr Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, ran the agency, known as CISA, from its creation in the wake of Russian interference with the 2016 vote through to this month’s election.</p>
<p>He won bipartisan praise as CISA co-ordinated federal state and local efforts to defend electoral systems from foreign or domestic interference.</p>
<p>In recent days, Mr Krebs has repeatedly pushed back against false claims that the election was tainted.</p>
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<p>Earlier on Tuesday, he tweeted report citing 59 election security experts saying there is no credible evidence of computer fraud in the 2020 election outcome.</p>
<p>Krebs, from his personal Twitter account, replied to his sacking saying: “Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomrorow.”</p>
<p>He closed with the phrase “Protect 2020,” which had been his agency’s slogan ahead of the election.</p>
<p>Officials with CISA and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, had no immediate comment.</p>
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