Trump Campaign Lawyer Suggests Executing Ex-Cybersecurity Staffer Chris Krebs: Should Be ‘Taken Out at Dawn and Shot’
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DiGenova’s remarks quickly drew condemnation, with the Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower group, issuing a statement in which they condemned “the President’s attorney for threatening a whistleblower.” Louis Clark, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Government Accountability Project, added that “threats like these trigger an avalanche of them. They terrorize other whistleblowers into silence. It’s behavior befitting a mob attorney.”
DiGenova’s controversial comments came just a day after Krebs stood by the statement that resulted in his termination. Appearing on CBS News’ 60 Minutes on Sunday, his first interview since he was fired by Trump via tweet, Krebs said that “we did a good job. We did it right. I’d do it a thousand times over.” He said, “I stand by” his original statement, in which he said, in a memo, that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”
The Sunday interview immediately drew the criticism of the president, who disputed Krebs’ claims at the time of his firing when he wrote in a tweet the statement “was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud.” Taking to Twitter just after the interview aired, Trump claimed that the 2020 election security was “an international joke” and the election “was probably our least secure EVER,” despite there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud.