{"id":29821,"date":"2020-12-08T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29821"},"modified":"2020-12-08T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:18:31","slug":"krebs-blames-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29821","title":{"rendered":"KREBS BLAMES TRUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Krebs, the nation\u2019s former top cybersecurity official, said in an interview broadcast late Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zrpdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrzsfzzs_srkbmmvrvtbkjscklbrv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zrpdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrzsfzzs_srkbmmvrvtbkjscklbrv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607555126299000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEQMc7nJSvP2Fu5f8LLsC79K_pgHg\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0is a \u201cbig part of the disinformation\u201d around the presidential election,\u00a0saying that democracy is \u201cunder attack from the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly the president is a big part of the disinformation that is coming out there about the rigged election, but there are absolutely others,\u201d Krebs, the former director of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yslcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtsmkvmmg_srkbmmvrvtbkjscklbrv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yslcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtsmkvmmg_srkbmmvrvtbkjscklbrv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607555126299000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHuOYsufg4vGb89Suuosh2AkYZ-w\">Axios on HBO<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krebs, who was fired by Trump last month after pushing back against the president&#8217;s concerns around election fraud and vote interference, also argued that continued attacks on the validity of the election could undermine democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all just for some reason think that democracy is resilient and can withstand this sort of attack,\u201d he said. \u201cI actually think democracy is quite fragile, and when the institutions themselves are under attack from the inside &#8230; that\u2019s pretty close to an existential issue, and so we need the other parts of the three-part government to actively push back and actively engage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Krebs, the nation\u2019s former top&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29822,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821\/revisions\/29822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}