US EditionTrump Purged About 75 People Charged With Safeguarding Elections and Replaced Some With 2020 Deniers: Report
At least 75 career officials were removed and replaced by about two dozen Trump appointees, including 10 who helped challenge the 2020 vote.
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Fed officials dismantled as Trump replaces election protection experts with loyalists
In December 2020, Attorney General William Barr convened federal cybersecurity and FBI experts in a classified room to determine if President Donald Trump's Antrim County voting machine claims were credible, as reported by ProPublica. CISA specialists explained the controversy resulted from a clerk ...
Inside Trump's Effort to 'Take Over' the Midterm Election
In the final weeks of the 2020 election, as Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud intensified, a small group of federal officials found themselves in a windowless room at the Justice Department confronting a question that could test the limits of American democracy: Had the vote really been hacked? The answer, delivered by cybersecurity experts and backed by the FBI, was clear: No. What had happened in Antrim County, Mich., was a clerical error, …
Trump Purged About 75 People Charged With Safeguarding Elections and Replaced Some With 2020 Deniers: Report
(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File) President Donald Trump’s administration forced out at least 75 career federal officials involved in protecting U.S. elections and replaced nearly a dozen of them with appointees tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 result, according to a sweeping new ProPublica investigation. The report says the departures have hollowed out long-standing safeguards at the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and ot…
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing.
In the days following his defeat in November 2020 against Joe Biden, Donald Trump tried to put pressure on his administration members to support his accusations of "mass electoral fraud." Following the publication, on 12 November, by the Agency for Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security (CISA), of a note stating that "the election was the most secure in US history", Trump dismissed the agency's director, Chris Krebs 13. In December, he repla…
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