Cybersecurity exec turns on Trump insiders who hired him to attack 2020 election results

In an interview with the USA Today Network, the owner of a cybersecurity firm based in New York claimed his company and similar ones were hired to create chaos and confusion about the 2020 presidential election vote totals — not look for actual election fraud.

According to a report from AZCentral, XRVision owner Yaacov Apelbaum pointed the finger at former Trump adviser Michael Flynn and ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne as "key orchestrators" intent on taking what Trump began by making election fraud claims to the next level in order to seize control of the MAGA movement.

AzCentral included the caveat that Apelbaum "has made dubious claims in the past. His familiarity with intelligence tactics and frequent collaboration with the far-right Gateway Pundit website — known for spreading false reports — raise questions about whether he's employing a disinformation campaign of his own."

As the report notes, he is now claiming there was never any plan to find fraud, only to cause doubt about the 2020 presidential election results that led to the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally and subsequent insurrection at the Capitol.

Pressed about what transpired, Apelbaum claimed, "The group, the same crowd, they plant seeds and let them germinate ... they want to destabilize faith in government. A lot of activity by Flynn and others is to take over the movement."

In July, XRVision filed a lawsuit accusing a wealthy Trump donor of using a Michigan lawyer to funnel money "to a network of cybersecurity firms hired to carry out the scheme," with AzCentral adding, "Apelbaum's legal claims are backed by business, financial and communication records independently verified by the USA Today Network. Those include tens of thousands of text messages from Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, who facilitated data breaches in Georgia and Michigan and led the discredited 'audit" of election results in Arizona."

Apelbaum's accusations may have ties to his company not getting paid, with the report stating, "XRVision was enlisted to analyze voting machine data obtained from a rural Pennsylvania county, according to the lawsuit. When the firm's employees refused to falsify evidence of fraud, the lawsuit claims, XRVision was defamed and stiffed out of $550,000."

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