President Trump’s campaign lawyer Joe diGenova today said that fired Trump cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs should be executed for saying that the election was the “most secure in United States history.”
DiGenova, a former U.S. Attorney, took aim at Krebs as an aside during a wheels-off segment full of false claims about how the United States election had been rigged.
“Anybody who thinks that this election went well, like that idiot Krebs who used to be the head of cybersecurity for Trump. That guy is a class A moron. He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot,” diGenova said.
The interview took place on the Howie Carr show, broadcast on the pro-Trump Newsmax TV.
WATCH: DiGenova Calls For Krebs Execution (video courtesy of Media Matters)
This is beyond disturbing.
This is an attorney speaking on behalf of the President of the United States’ reelection campaign.
Carr, a longtime conservative broadcaster, paused and then chuckled at the remark.
DiGenova’s execution remark follows the Krebs interview with 60 Minutes in which he debunked the Trump team’s outlandish and conspiratorial claims about the election.
Krebs is a lifelong Republican who Trump put in charge of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which had oversight of election security.
After Krebs called the election the ‘most secure’ in American history, Trump fired him via tweet.
WATCH: Krebs Interview on 60 Minutes
In addition to threatening Krebs, over the course of the interview diGenova made ominous and false suggestions about “circuit breakers” shutting down on election night in multiple states, which allowed for vote fraud; millions of votes showing up in dump trucks, tow trucks, and vans without detection; and he called on state legislatures to have the “cojones” to overturn the results of the election.
More appropriate recommendations in a banana Republic than the USA.