Trump lawyer calls for violence against truth-telling former election cybersecurity official

DiGenova’s remarks, while far more extreme than others made by White House officials during Trump’s tenure, underscore the administration’s crusade against whistleblowers and others who spoke out in opposition during the presidential term and refuse to adopt his conspiratorial vision of the election.

DiGenova’s comments were swiftly condemned Monday by the Government Accountability Project, a group of whistleblowers that warned that such threats could have a chilling effect on officials seeking to expose wrongdoing.

“Threats like this set off an avalanche of them. They terrorize other whistleblowers to silence them. This is behavior befitting a Mafia lawyer,” Louis Clark, executive director and chief said Monday. of the group’s management in a scathing statement.

The statement from the Krebs Agency, as well as public and private election officials, said, “The November 3 election was the safest in American history. … There is no evidence that one voting system has suppressed or lost votes, changed votes, or been compromised in any way. “

In the run-up to the election, Krebs had often quietly disputed the president’s repeated bogus claims about mail-in ballots, but went out of his way not to get drawn into criticizing his boss for spreading lies.

But in the days that followed, Krebs had taken a more forceful approach, posting regularly on Twitter – often with resounding red siren emoticons – fact-checks on the allegations and conspiracy theories pushed by Trump, his allies and his supporters. supporters across the country.

Although states certify their results and award electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden before the Electoral College meeting on December 14, Trump did not concede the election. Instead, he continued to falsely claim that he won.