Trump White House Aides Subpoenaed in Firing of Election Security Expert

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

The special counsel investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election has subpoenaed staff members from the Trump White House who may have been involved in firing the government cybersecurity official whose agency judged the election “the most secure in American history,” according to two people briefed on the matter.

The team led by the special counsel, Jack Smith, has been asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of Christopher Krebs, who was the Trump administration’s top cybersecurity official during the 2020 election. Mr. Krebs’s assessment that the election was secure was at odds with Mr. Trump’s baseless assertions that it was a “fraud on the American public.”

Mr. Smith’s team is also seeking information about how White House officials, including in the Presidential Personnel Office, approached the Justice Department, which Mr. Trump turned to after his election loss as a way to try to stay in power, people familiar with the questions said.

The investigators appear focused on Mr. Trump’s state of mind around the firing of Mr. Krebs, as well as on establishing a timeline of events leading up to the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021. The latest subpoenas, issued roughly two weeks ago, went to officials in the personnel office, according to the two people familiar with the matter.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/politics/trump-aides-subpoenaed-special-counsel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[agingdem]

1. state of mind..Trump fired Krebs because

Krebs told him what he didn't want to hear...he was a loser

[OhNo-Really]

9. Read Krebs Deposition. "Most Secure Election ever!

I read a lot of the Jan6 Depositions.

Chris Krebs’ and John McEntee were two insightful deposition into the reality of the integrity of the election and “the loyalist” hiring/firing process McEntee was directed to follow and willingly did so.

Notes: Krebs had hundreds of elections workers on site working with 1000s of state workers (all well trained before the election) throughout the USA addressing and fixing any election issues that happened in real time leading up to and including Election Day and the immediate aftermath the the USA. Amazingly effective leader.

His post election reporting debunked most of the “Election Fraud Issues” that were being spread by Trump & his loyalists.

Link to Krebs deposition
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23511021/20211209_christopher-krebs.pdf

I draw your attention to page 99 of the deposition.
In response to being asked “what accounts for a large percentage of Americans believe the 2000 Presidental election was stolen?”

Chris Krebs responds:

“…..because senior officials, including the former President, lied to the American people about the security of the 2020 election, that it was stolen. So it’s a self-reinforcing cycle.

Chris Krebs was fired on November 17, 2000 by Trump appointee John McEntee, Director of President Personnel.

Trump tweeted

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...
5:07 PM · Nov 17, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/936003057/cisa-director-chris-krebs-fired-after-trying-to-correct-voter-fraud-disinformati

McEntee’s Deposition is absolutely fascinating in spite of his poor memory.

McEntee and staff had a “loyalty test” for new hires and hired and fired at the behest of Team & Team Captain, former President Trump.

Link to McEntee’s deposition:
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23557077/20220328_john-d-mcentee.pdf

60 Minutes interview if Chris Krebs

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. JFC. I abhor the piece of shit but even I'm getting tired of "investigation of the day." For fuck's

sake, when is the end???

[agingdem]

5. I've said this before...

at some point Jack Smith/Garland are going to have indict on what they have today regardless of the dreck they discover tomorrow...I say continue to investigate and add more charges as they are uncovered but until there is a reckoning, until Trump is severely punished for perpetuating the near destruction of our democracy we can't move on from January 6..

[Comfortably_Numb]

8. This, dem. I've followed drumph's criming long enough to learn superseding indictment.....

[RestoreAmerica2020]

6. Agreed..jeez indict the odious traitor already! When an indictment is filed ..surely there's a

..place where on document that states pending addn crimes ( bc criming by El corrupt criminal, accused sexual abuser$45 is exposed daily and relative any one of the many investigations presently addressed in at least 4 grand juries.. NY-Bragg, Georgia-Willis, DC-Smith eg documents all nearing a critical time line -- elections where any activity against a purported criminal running for office is given a time out- what a fucking rule, courtesy given any candidate bc justice can't appear bias.

Yet, I fear that the more time it takes to bring anyone of the investigations against corrupt criminal#45 all will be for not.. except for final report ..well yes he committed this and that..that is all folks..like the Mueller report. I've become such a pessimist with regards to the litany of crimes exposed daily, exhausted really-- have gotten to the point..to just say, well some people are above the law but a guy selling single cigarettes on a sidewalk.is literally killed by cops, a young man walking home at night after buying snacks from.conveient store is shot dead. A young woman is stop for vehicle signal violation, is arrested, found dead in jail cell..everyone involved with their deaths walk away unscathed-- justice ?.meh 😑..

One problem that can be resolved in staving off elcorrupt criminal from ever getting his dirty fingers any where near the nuclear codes again is for DOJ to undo or change stupid internal rule---not a law. Rule that states.that a sitting president can it be indicted for a crime-- just change to--yes, a sitting president can be arrested, indicted, sentenced to prison for crimes committed. Argument against change ..well when Dem president is in office ..then what. Then what? If he's a fucking criminal then throw his fucking ass in jail-- jeez. Ok, bc I've lived long enough to know anyone of our Dem presidents are not corrupt, engage in nefarious a actions-- Republiklans seem to claim corruption as their brand. At one time, I investigated who when where why this rule was drawn.up...after Nixon to protect future corrupt presidents..no, it was much later! Was possibly Bush 2, Obama's admin-- will recheck. If rule was changed..#45 will drop.out of race ..well ok, not immediately bc there's more grifting, scamming voters out of their hard earned money-- yet, by changing DOJ ruling may be an immediate way to stop the chaos. Just an idea--.thanks for post and allowing me to rant. I try to stay away from.any news on corrupt$45 but that's all the news is about 24/7 talk about the guy..in turn he gets what he wants free publicity--his name, face splattered everywhere at nauseum. Anyway.. ( ps have to take a quick break will edit later)

Paz.
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[jaxexpat]

4. All to nail down another smple fact among dozens of such facts.

To make irrefutable a claim that Trump pushed the Jan 6 riot from the oval office.
One would think that by this date such proof would have been long since acquired in its fullest extent.
It's commonly presumed that Whitehouse personnel serve at the pleasure of the president. If that's the case, being fired by Trump should be great for one's resume.

[jvill]

7. air tight

won't get multiple bites at the apple, folks. need to get it all airtight, and go in one swoop...