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Fired Trump Cybersecurity Official Debunks President’s Election Lies, One By One

Chris Krebs fact-checked false claims the president made during a 46-minute Facebook rant.
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“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Thursday asked Chris Krebs, the fired former chief of U.S. cybersecurity, to fact-check President Donald Trump’s latest round of disinformation about fraud in the 2020 election.

And, one by one, Krebs debunked or clarified false claims the president made in a 46-minute rant on Facebook ― from votes being counted in foreign countries to ballots being changed from Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. Trump ousted Krebs, a lifelong Republican, last month for publicly contradicting his baseless claims of mass voting irregularities.

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