Trump slams sacked cybersecurity head after Senate testimony about ‘dangerous’ electoral fraud...

The former administration official responsible for cybersecurity who was fired by Donald Trump, has told a Senate committee that it was “dangerous” for elected officials to champion unfounded attacks on the 2020 election.

Christopher Krebs, who led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that such attacks risked undermining public confidence in the democratic process.

Following the hearing, Donald Trump tweeted an attack on Mr Krebs, claiming he had been “excoriated” and “proven wrong”.

Mr Krebs was the one witness called by Democrats on the committee to counter claims by supporters of the president that were either baseless or had been previously dismissed in court – many of which the president went on to mention in his tweet.