Appearing for an interview on CNN Tuesday, former Trump administration official Christopher Krebs condemned the “lawlessness” of a Trump draft executive order that was meant to execute a coup and overturn the results of the 2020 election after losing to Joe Biden.
CNN reporter Tom Foreman noted that the executive order “reads like a fictional thriller. The inauguration postponed, voting machines seized by the military and Donald Trump’s time extended by weeks. The December 2020 draft executive order could have triggered all of that if it had been signed and enacted before Joe Biden’s win was certified” and characterized it as “a patchwork of conspiracy theories and dubious legal arguments previously pushed by Team Trump.”
Krebs, who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under former President Donald Trump, expressed consternation over the “illegality” of it all.
“The sheer brazenness and illegality of it all is shocking,” said Krebs. “This is a violation of a restriction on using federal troops for domestic law enforcement action.”
“We don’t know who wrote the draft executive order,” said Foreman. “There are a lot of rumors. We don’t know why it was never signed or if it was seriously considered. But it fits into the desperate maneuvers by Team Trump to deny the unequivocal loss at the polls, even if this paper was not worth the paper it was written on.”
Watch the segment below from CNN — Krebs’s comments come at the 1:52 mark.
