'Not getting tired of winning': Trump's ousted election security chief vindicated again

A top election security official who was fired by Donald Trump weeks after the 2020 vote admitted he felt vindicated by Mark Meadows flipping on the former president.

The former White House chief of staff reportedly testified that both he and Trump knew their claims of election fraud were without merit, and Chris Krebs, who had served as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency until his ouster in December 2020, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he was encouraged by the development.

"You know, I kind of think of some claims we heard a little while ago from the former president, maybe we're getting tired of winning," Krebs said. "I'm not getting tired of winning. We need to continue exposing those that sought to undermine the public's confidence in our public institutions, in our very elections. If we do not have confidence in our elections, then to a certain extent what's the point?"

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Trump fired Krebs after he assured voters the 2020 election had been "the most secure in American history," and he said much of the evidence turned up by Georgia prosecutors – who have already secured four guilty pleas in the election interference case – proved his own findings.

"It's frankly things that we all knew," Krebs said. "It's things that those of us knew in 2020. It's things that the thousands of election workers across the country knew when they put their blood, sweat and tears to ensuring the American people could vote in the middle of a global pandemic, vote safely and secure, these are all things we knew. At a minimum it's heartening to see that these folks that lied and pushed these false claims around the 2020 election are finally being held to account. It's going to be critically important going into the 2024 election that we do have a series of guardrails in place that ideally, hopefully, it will not happen again."

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