Krebs: Trump not acknowledging election results is ‘corrosive’ to democracy

Christopher Krebs, the former U.S. head of cybersecurity, said it was “corrosive” to free elections for President Trump to refuse to acknowledge the outcome of the 2020 election.

“I do think it’s corrosive to confidence in the election” for the president not to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Krebs said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

“I do think the point of elections, it’s often been said by election officials, is you’re trying to convince the loser that they lost. But to do that, you have to have willing participants that are honest brokers, and we’re just not seeing that right now.”

“Any fraud claims, any security claims, any sort of things along those lines, we’re just not seeing supporting evidence, and again, it is time to move on,” Krebs added.

.@C_C_Krebs, a lifelong Republican, isn’t sure why more members of his party won’t acknowledge #election2020 results.

He warns @margbrennan not doing so is “corrosive to confidence in the election” and democracy

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— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 6, 2020

Trump fired Krebs as director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency shortly after Krebs assessed the 2020 election as the most secure in the nation’s history. Krebs has stood by his assertion in interviews and statement since.

“This point cannot be emphasized enough: The secretaries of state in Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania, as well officials in Wisconsin, all worked overtime to ensure there was a paper trail that could be audited or recounted by hand, independent of any allegedly hacked software or hardware,” he said in a Washington Post op-ed published last week.