USA: In a tweet, vindictive Trump fires cybersecurity chief who dismissed his claims of fraud in US election

Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate.”

Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, had offered a stream of statements and tweets over the past week attesting to the integrity of the election, directly contradicting Trump’s false assertions of widespread fraud without mentioning the president by name.

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USA: Repubican Vengance infecting US Diplomatic Corps - as U.S. diplomat claims a Trump appointee fired him for Mentioning Obama

A former U.S. diplomat says he was fired from his job as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in London just for mentioning Barack Obama in a speech.

Lewis Lukens spent three decades in the U.S. foreign service, including stints as the U.S. ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau and the acting ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2017.

However, GQ magazine reports that Lukens was fired in October 2018, after his boss learned he had included an Obama anecdote in a speech to university students in England.

At the time of the speech,President Donald Trump had recently attacked British leaders like former Prime Minister Theresa May and London Mayor Sadiq Kha

However, a week after the speech, Lukens’ boss, U.S. Ambassador Woody Johnson, a Trump political appointee, fired Lukens. It was just seven months ahead of when Lukens was scheduled to leave for a new assignment.

The reason? Lukens had mentioned Obama in his speech to the students, GQ reported. That’s an apparent no-no for many of Trump’s political appointees, whom Lukens said don’t trust the full-time diplomats.

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