2020年美国选举：众议院选举，民主党获得222席，共和党获210席，佩洛西再次当选众议院议长；参议院选举，形成民主党50：50共和党局面；国会正式认证，拜登以选举人团306票当选总统

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President-elect Joe Biden is projected to win Georgia, and President Trump is projected to win North Carolina in the final calls of the presidential race.
Edison Research projects that Biden will capture Georgia’s 16 electoral votes, flipping a state Republicans have won in presidential elections since 1996.

Georgia is now conducting a statewide hand recount of presidential votes, but Biden’s current lead of 14,152 votes in Georgia is expected to withstand any recount changes.

Trump is projected to add North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes to his total. Overall, Biden is projected to win 306 electoral votes, and Trump is projected to win 232.

Trump will deliver an update on the effort to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine at 4 p.m., his first public remarks in more than a week. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris continued to meet with transition advisers to plan their administration even as Trump challenges the vote count in several states and refuses to concede.

A Michigan judge has rejected a GOP demand to delay certification of the vote count in Detroit. This is the latest in a string of defeats for President Trump and his allies, who have sought to undo — or at least delay — Biden’s electoral victory with long-shot lawsuits claiming election irregularities.
 
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More than 20 arrested as Trump supporters clash with counter protesters in D.C.

Several other cities on Saturday also saw gatherings of Trump supporters unwilling to accept Democrat Joe Biden’s Electoral College and popular vote victory as legitimate
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Thousands of U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters marched in Washington on Saturday to back his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud as he pushes ahead with a flurry of longshot legal challenges to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

A week after his Democratic rival clinched the election, Trump’s lawsuits have made little headway in the courts while Biden has received congratulatory calls from world leaders and pushed ahead with work on forming his Cabinet.

For the first time on Friday, Trump began to sound doubtful about his prospects, telling reporters “time will tell” who occupies the White House from Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.

Flag-carrying Trump supporters, however, were out in force on Saturday to complain of alleged electoral fraud. Chanting “Stop the steal!” and “We are the champions!”, they streamed from Freedom Plaza near the White House to the U.S. Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill.

Scores of members of the far-right Proud Boys group, clad in black with some wearing helmets and ballistic vests, were among the marchers. Some left-wing groups planned counter-demonstrations but there were no reports of major incidents.

Trump’s motorcade briefly drove slowly through the crowds on the way to his golf course in Sterling, Virginia. Video on social media showed Trump, wearing a red baseball cap, waving to his supporters from inside the presidential limousine.


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As the marches picked up steam, Biden told reporters in Delaware that he was getting closer to forming his Cabinet.

Biden further solidified his victory on Friday as results from Edison Research showed him winning Georgia, giving him a final tally of 306 Electoral College votes, far more than the 270 needed to be elected president and above Trump’s 232.

The 306 votes was equal to Trump’s tally in his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, which at the time he called a “landslide.”

Trump briefly appeared close to acknowledging the likelihood he will be leaving the White House in January during remarks about the coronavirus response at a White House event on Friday.

“This administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the, uh, whatever happens in the future – who knows which administration it will be? I guess time will tell,” Trump said.

With the election outcome becoming clearer, Trump has discussed with advisers possible media ventures and appearances that would keep him in the spotlight ahead of a possible 2024 White House bid, aides said.

His supporters were fired up on Saturday.

Mike Seneca stood near Freedom Plaza with his dog Zena, a King Corso who he clad in a red tee shirt emblazoned with “All American Dog”, said he was backing the president.

“It’s hard to believe he wouldn’t have won,” Seneca said, and he echoed Trump’s unfounded allegations that mail-in ballots that favored Biden were fraudulent.

Donald Tarca Jr., who traveled to Washington from West Palm Beach, Florida, held a massive U.S. flag sporting a giant portrait of Trump.

“I think it was rigged on multiple fronts,” he said of the election. “Also the media was so biased that they convinced millions of Americans to vote for Biden. They hate Trump.”

Protesting against the marches, opponents on social media sought to create confusion by flooding the hashtags #MillionMAGAMarch and #MarchforTrump with photographs of pancakes.

FAILING IN COURT​


Trump has refused to concede to Biden and claims without evidence that he was cheated by widespread election fraud. State election officials report no serious irregularities, and several of his legal challenges have failed in court.

A Michigan state court on Friday rejected a request by Trump’s supporters to block the certification of votes in Detroit, which went heavily in favor of Biden. And lawyers for Trump’s campaign dropped a lawsuit in Arizona after the final vote count there rendered it moot.

Federal election security officials have found no evidence that any voting system deleted, lost or changed votes, “or was in any way compromised,” two security groups said in a statement released on Thursday by the lead U.S. cybersecurity agency.

To win a second term, Trump would need to overturn Biden’s lead in at least three states, but he has so far failed to produce evidence that he could do so in any of them.

States face a Dec. 8 deadline to certify their elections and choose electors for the Electoral College, which will officially select the new president on Dec. 14.

Trump’s refusal to accept defeat has stalled the official transition. The federal agency that releases funding to an incoming president-elect, the General Services Administration, has yet to recognize Biden’s victory, denying him access to federal office space and resources.

Biden, who will meet with advisers about the transition on Saturday in his home state of Delaware, has pressed ahead with the process, identifying legislative priorities, reviewing federal agency policies and preparing to fill thousands of jobs in the new administration.

The Democrat took a bike ride on Saturday morning with his wife Jill and some secret service agents at Delaware’s Cape Henlopen State Park. A reporter called out “Are you any closer to making a cabinet decision?” Biden replied, “Yes” as he rode by.
 


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Republican leaders in four critical states won by U.S. president-elect Joe Biden say they won't participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state's electors to vote for President Donald Trump. Their comments effectively shut down a half-baked plot some Republicans floated as a last chance to keep Trump in the White House.

State Republican lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have all said they would not intervene in the selection of electors, who ultimately cast the votes that secure a candidate's victory. Such a move would violate state law and a vote of the people, several noted.

"I do not see, short of finding some type of fraud — which I haven't heard of anything — I don't see us in any serious way addressing a change in electors," said Rusty Bowers, Arizona's Republican House speaker, who said he's been inundated with emails pleading for the legislature to intervene.

"They are mandated by statute to choose according to the vote of the people."

The idea loosely involves Republican-controlled legislatures dismissing Biden's popular vote wins in their states and opting to select Trump electors. While the end game was unclear, it appeared to hinge on the expectation that a conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court would settle any dispute over the move.

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Still, it has been promoted by Trump allies, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and is an example of misleading information and false claims fuelling skepticism among Trump supporters about the integrity of the vote.

The theory is rooted in the fact that the U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures the power to decide how electors are chosen. Each state already has passed laws that delegate this power to voters and appoint electors for whichever candidate wins the state on Election Day. The only opportunity for a state legislature to then get involved with electors is a provision in federal law allowing it if the actual election "fails."

If the result of the election was unclear in mid-December, at the deadline for naming electors, Republican-controlled legislatures in those states could declare that Trump won and appoint electors supporting him. Or so the theory goes.

Election result is perfectly clear​

The problem, legal experts note, is that the result of the election is not in any way unclear. Biden won all the states at issue. It's hard to argue the election "failed" when Trump's own Department of Homeland Security reported it was not tampered with and was "the most secure in American history." There has been no finding of widespread fraud or problems in the vote count, which shows Biden leading Trump by more than five million votes nationally.

Trump's campaign and its allies have filed lawsuits that aim to delay the certification and potentially provide evidence for a failed election. But so far, Trump and Republicans have had meagre success — at least 10 of the lawsuits have been rejected by the courts in the 10 days since the election. The most significant that remain ask courts to prevent Michigan and Pennsylvania from certifying Biden as the winner of their elections.

But legal experts say it's impossible for courts to ultimately stop those states from appointing electors by the December deadline.

"It would take the most unjustified and bizarre intervention by courts that this country has ever seen," said Danielle Lang of the Campaign Legal Center. "I haven't seen anything in any of those lawsuits that has any kind of merit — let alone enough to delay appointing electors."

Electoral Count Act​

Even if Trump won a single court fight, there's another potential roadblock: Congress could be the final arbiter of whether to accept disputed slates of electors, according to the Electoral Count Act of 1887, the law outlining the process. In the end, if the Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate could not agree on which electors to accept, and there is no vote and no winner, the presidency would pass to the next person in the line of succession at the end of Trump and U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence's term on Jan. 20. That would be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.

"If this is a strategy, I don't think it will be successful," said Edward Foley, a constitutional law professor at Ohio State University. "I think we're in the realm of fantasy here."

But unfounded claims about fraud and corruption have been circulating widely in conservative circles since Biden won the election. Asked this week if state lawmakers should invalidate the official results, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said, "Everything should be on the table."

DeSantis urged Pennsylvania and Michigan residents to call state lawmakers and urge them to intervene. "Under Article 2 of the Constitution, presidential electors are done by the legislatures and the schemes they create and the framework. And if there's departure from that, if they're not following the law, if they're ignoring law, then they can provide remedies as well," he said.

Republican lawmakers, however, appear to be holding steady.

"The Pennsylvania General Assembly does not have and will not have a hand in choosing the state's presidential electors or in deciding the outcome of the presidential election," top Republican legislative leaders, state Sen. Jake Corman and Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, wrote in an October op-ed. Their offices said Friday they stand by the statement.

The Republican leader of Wisconsin's Assembly, Robin Vos, has long dismissed the idea, and his spokesperson, Kit Beyer, said he stood by that position on Thursday.

In Michigan, legislative leaders say any intervention would be against state law. Even though the Republican-controlled legislature is investigating the election, state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey told radio station WJR on Friday, "It is not the expectation that our analysis will result in any change in the outcome."
 
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US election 2020: Biden takes Georgia to solidify victory

It comes as Donald Trump appears to acknowledge the possibility of a new government for the first time.
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US President-elect Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia, the BBC projects, the first Democratic candidate to do so since 1992.

The win solidifies Mr Biden's victory, giving him a total of 306 votes in the electoral college, the system the US uses to choose its president.

President Donald Trump is projected to win North Carolina, reaching 232 votes.

Mr Trump, who has not yet conceded, alluded for the first time to a possible new administration in January.

Looking subdued, the president stopped short of acknowledging his defeat during a briefing of his coronavirus task force at the White House. These were his first public comments on the election since his defeat was projected by US media.

As the country faces growing outbreaks of Covid-19, Mr Trump said he would not impose a lockdown to fight the virus, adding: "Whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be. I guess time will tell."
 
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Top Trump official ratchets up rebukes of false election claims

The Trump administration official in charge of helping states secure their elections has ramped up his efforts to reject the false claims coming from U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters to the point that he's telling associates he expects to be fired.
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The Trump administration official in charge of helping states secure their elections has ramped up his efforts to reject the false claims coming from U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters to the point that he's telling associates he expects to be fired.

On Thursday, Chris Krebs, who runs the cyber arm of the Department of Homeland Security, re-tweeted an elections expert calling on people to ignore "wild and baseless claims...even if they're made by the president." It wasn't his own tweet, but it was a notable rebuke of Trump from within his own administration as the President refuses to concede the race to president-elect Joe Biden.

An hour later, Krebs' agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, released a statement along with state and private election officials that was its most blunt rejection of the President's claims to date: "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," they wrote in a statement, with the line bolded for emphasis.

In the lead-up to the election, Krebs had often quietly disputed the president's repeated false claims about mail-in ballots but went out of his way to not get drawn into criticizing his boss for spreading lies. But in the days that have followed the election, Krebs has adopted a more forceful approach regularly posted on Twitter -- often with blaring red siren emojis -- fact checks of the claims and conspiracy theories being pushed by Trump, his allies and supporters around the country.

One conspiracy theory that has taken root online about a CIA supercomputer that changed Trump votes to Biden was dubbed a "hoax" and "nonsense" by Krebs, who linked back to CISA's "Rumor Control" page where they've been swatting away persistent false claims.

"This is not a real thing, don't fall for it," Krebs wrote. By then it had already been mentioned on the Fox program hosted by Trump supporter Lou Dobbs, and would appear again on Fox & Friends, which the president regularly calls into, shortly thereafter.

On Thursday, Trump went after a technology firm, Dominion Voting Systems, in an all-caps tweet that said in Pennsylvania they "SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN." The day before, Krebs highlighted the Rumor Control post that stated: "Every state has voting system safeguards to ensure each ballot cast in the election can be correctly counted."

Krebs was quick to respond when the president posted a video of election workers picking up ballots from a drop box in Los Angeles the day after voting ended with a message that questioned the legality: "Is this what our country has come to?

Krebs then tweeted LA County's response to the president, that what the video showed was in fact perfectly legal. The drop box was locked the night before and the ballots were being picked up.

Krebs believes he could be fired​

Krebs believes he has a target on his back and expects that he could be fired, multiple sources have said. That expectation deepened after two senior DHS officials, including one of Krebs' deputies, were forced to resign Thursday because, according to one source, they were seen as "anti-Trump."

On Friday, Krebs was on the virtual morning meeting, a DHS source said, and that so far it was "business as usual."

Krebs has been responsible for a widely-praised revamp of the department's cybersecurity efforts and increasing coordination with state and local governments, as the first director of CISA. He served as one of the most key federal national security officials that oversaw an election that by all accounts went very smoothly. Foreign adversaries were not able to affect any of the votes, CISA said, and it was "the most secure election in American history" according to them and the wider group of public and private election officials.

So firing Krebs, a U.S. official said, would "cross a red line" and set off alarm bells throughout the national security apparatus.

A state election official said they are watching to see what happens to Krebs. "Needless to say, this is not good," they told CNN.

Speculation about Krebs's future comes after several of the Pentagon's most senior civilian officials were replaced with officials perceived as loyal to the President, and reports of Trump's increasing frustration with CIA Director Gina Haspel.

Being fired by a Trump tweet -- as the former Secretary of Defense was this week - while being seen as standing up for the truth and strength of the election could burnish Krebs' image, whether he wants to join the Biden administration or go into the private sector, associates say.

Some within DHS frustrated at Krebs​

Kreb's pushback at the President's repeated falsehoods has frustrated some within the department.

"Krebs is actively trying to get fired," a senior administration official told CNN. "It's selfish and a distraction from the good work DHS has done in the election security space."

CISA and DHS declined to comment for this story.

Krebs has often said "speed kills" is the goal in rooting out and debunking false claims as they arise. CISA and the FBI put out an advisory before the election warning about foreign adversaries flooding an uncertain post-election space to sow chaos and further divisions.

Instead, experts say, the vast majority of the disinformation has been domestic and come not just from the right-wing corners of the internet where Trump is popular, but the White House.

"He's done a very good job," President George W. Bush's Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said of Krebs on Monday, adding that he would recommend keeping Krebs in his role through the transition to a Biden administration.

If Krebs were fired, it "would show again how little this administration actually cares about defending our democracy," California's Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat, said Thursday.

"You need respected, competent leaders like Krebs," Padilla added, "especially while votes are still being counted and audited."
 
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Christopher Krebs Hasn’t Been Fired, Yet (Published 2020)

Mr. Krebs’s government agency contradicted President Trump’s false claims that the election was rigged. At this point, Mr. Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, still has a job.
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WASHINGTON — Christopher Krebs is a 43-year-old former Microsoft executive who had the unenviable government job of protecting the nation’s election machinery from manipulation by Russia or other foreign hackers. It turns out, though, that some of the most dangerous interference has come not from the Kremlin but from the White House, where the president called the election “rigged” before a single vote was cast.

Mr. Krebs’s organization, the Department of Homeland Security’s new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has systematically shot down Mr. Trump’s false claims — that mail-in ballots would lead to extensive fraud and that voting machines were programmed to give votes to Joseph R. Biden Jr. — as part of its “rumor control” initiative to keep Americans from doubting the integrity of the election system.

To no one’s surprise, speculation swept through cybercircles in Washington on Thursday that Mr. Krebs was high on President Trump’s list of officials to be fired after his agency, known as CISA, released a statement from a government-led coordinating council saying that “there is no evidence” any voting systems were compromised and that the 2020 election “was the most secure in American history.” This occurred only hours after Mr. Trump had repeated a baseless report that a voting machine system had “deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide.”

As of Friday night, Mr. Krebs was still employed, and still at his office, and shrugging it all off. As a father of five children, ages 2 through 10, he says he is used to living in chaos.

His department’s rumor control website, he said, was never devised with the president in mind. It was instead for “inoculating the American public” to make clear that even if there were fake websites created by the Russians and Iranians to stir up divisions before the election, “it wouldn’t mean that votes were affected, or tabulations were wrong.” A case in point: An Iranian effort to imitate the far-right Proud Boys was caught by American intelligence, and threatening emails the group had supposedly sent voters were debunked.

If anyone believed the warnings about false information posted on the website were about the president, he said, that was their interpretation. “We’ll stand up for all our work,” he said.

Few in the White House are buying it. In the West Wing, Mr. Krebs’s agency is regarded as a deep-state stronghold, an antagonist that has contradicted Mr. Trump’s false claims that fraud was rampant, software mistakes were vast and the election was stolen. It did not help that as Mr. Krebs gave speeches and interviews around the country about election security, he rarely, if ever, mentioned Mr. Trump’s name.

All of this has put Mr. Krebs in a highly public political standoff that he had no way to see when he started at the Department of Homeland Security as a contractor during its infancy in the George W. Bush administration.

He said his closest connection to computers growing up in Atlanta was Nintendo games. “I could wire stuff up,” he said, “but coding wasn’t really available” at his high school. He went on to the University of Virginia, where he was a pole-vaulter, and the George Mason University law school.

At homeland security, he worked in what was then called the National Protections and Programs Directorate, a predecessor bureaucracy in the days before protecting computer networks seemed central to the department’s mission.

He ended up as a political employee until President Barack Obama’s election sent him back to the private sector, at consulting companies and ultimately in Microsoft’s Washington office, where he directed cyberpolicy.

He joined as North Korea’s hacking of Sony was underway and developed a reputation for crisis management as one breach after another unfolded across American companies and government networks. Among the policies he worked on at Microsoft was a 2015 cybersecurity information act, which formalized the mechanism by which private companies like Microsoft could share threat intelligence with the federal government and vice versa. Lobbyists watered down the bill at every pass, but Mr. Krebs was determined to see it through.

Just after the 2018 midterm elections, Mr. Trump signed into law the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act, elevating a dedicated digital security agency in the Department of Homeland Security with more budget and resources. Mr. Krebs was named as director and charged with defending an election for a president who did not want to discuss what the Russians did in 2016 and helping states, including his native Georgia, that did not want federal help.
He has received high marks for his preparations for the election this year. “We had four years to prepare for the 2020 election, and that meant we had time to do threat models and figure out the potential actors who would enter the fray,” he said.

For two years, Mr. Krebs quietly assembled a team of deputies to travel the country offering help to secure state election machines, registration systems and polling procedures. Many states, particularly conservative-leaning ones, perceived any kind of federal assistance as its own kind of election interference.

Mr. Krebs and his team decided to pivot to handling ransomware — cyberattacks that hold data hostage until victims paid up. Throughout 2019, digital extortionists were holding up American cities, towns, counties and clerks, be it in Atlanta, Baltimore or small towns in Texas. Soon states and counties began signing up for help to safeguard their systems.

Mr. Krebs’s team worked with states to scan and patch systems for vulnerabilities, lock up voter registration databases and voter rolls, change default passwords, turn on two-factor authentication, and print out paper backups, all to build up “resilience” in case of attack. He was protecting, he said, “the crown jewels of election administration.”

When the pandemic upended everything, Mr. Krebs’s team shifted focus to securing vote-by-mail systems, despite the president’s campaign again them. That was when Mr. Krebs’s agency got in the White House’s cross hairs.

In interviews, Mr. Krebs countered Mr. Trump by saying mail-in voting would make the election more secure by creating a paper trail, critical for audits to establish that every legal ballot was correctly counted.

It also made state registration databases more critical: an attack that froze or sabotaged voter-registration data — by switching addresses, marking registered voters as unregistered or deleting voters entirely — risked mass digital disenfranchisement. Mr. Krebs made it his personal mission to see to it that every last registration database was sealed up.

When Mr. Trump called mail-in voting a “fraud” in his televised debate with Mr. Biden, now the president-elect, in September, Mr. Krebs contradicted the president at every turn, again without mentioning his name.

“We’ve got a lot of confidence that the ballot’s as secure as it’s ever been,” Mr. Krebs told any reporter who asked.

On Election Day, Mr. Krebs and senior officials held briefings with reporters every few hours to apprise them of any threats. Chad Wolf, the secretary of homeland security, a Trump loyalist and Mr. Krebs’s boss, even appeared at one to praise Mr. Krebs’s work. Despite small hiccups, Mr. Krebs reassured journalists that there was no major foreign interference or signs of systemic fraud.

“It’s just another Tuesday on the internet,” he said.
 
前一阵铺天盖地的什么选票上面印水印，当天晚上已经大规模的抓人的证据不搞了？改变了抓坏人的策略搞投票机了？办大事要专注呀。
 
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DHS boss Chad Wolf defies Trump order to fire cyber chief Chris Krebs

Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf is defying President Trump’s order to terminate election cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, multiple sources tell The Post. T…
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Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf is defying President Trump’s order to terminate election cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, multiple sources tell The Post.

The White House on Wednesday evening instructed Wolf to fire Krebs after Krebs openly dismissed claims of voter fraud in the Nov. 3 election.

“He gave us a bunch of reasons why he didn’t want to do it and he said no,” a senior White House official told The Post about Wolf’s refusal.

“If anything, Chad is carrying Krebs’ water,” the source added.

Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, has since 2017 led DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and recently launched a “Rumor Control” website to debunk claims of voter fraud. A CISA panel declared Thursday that the “November 3rd election was the most secure in American history,” rejecting Trump’s claims of widespread fraud.

A different administration official said “the president wants to fire him” and “Chad Wolf is refusing.”

Both officials told The Post that there was no ambiguity about whether the termination order came from the president, who says fraud resulted in narrow unofficial losses to President-elect Joe Biden in crucial swing states.

“Honestly, it was the president saying, ‘What the heck is this guy doing? He’s giving me grief before the election and now he’s saying there’s nothing wrong in the world?'” the White House official said.

Krebs irked Trump allies even before he refuted claims that election fraud tilted results toward Biden. Foes claim he’s close to former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor, who recently outed himself as “Anonymous.”

A third person familiar with the matter noted concern that Krebs employs an appointee of President Barack Obama, Matt Masterson, as his senior adviser for election security.

“Chad was asked by the president to fire Anonymous’ best friend and he’s refusing,” the administration official said. “He is not managing his agency, but that should not surprise anyone because he is a [former DHS Secretary Kirstjen] Nielsen lackey.”

Taylor did not respond to a request for comment from The Post about whether Krebs is indeed a friend.

It’s unclear if Trump will use his unilateral right to dismiss Krebs from his post without Wolf’s assistance, officials said.

A spokesman for Wolf said, “All political appointees serve at the pleasure of the president. The White House has unilateral authority in hiring and firing of presidential appointees.”

Wolf, in office less than a year, immediately preceded Taylor as Nielsen’s chief of staff. But he’s an unlikely face of lame-duck resistance to Trump after regularly backing the president’s policies in public and helping put down anti-police brutality riots this year.

Among Krebs’ sins, according to sources, is his decision to host an election night gathering at a northern Virginia office building — described by a detractor as a watch party. A document reviewed by The Post indicates it was attended by two staffers of Dominion Voting Systems, whose platform miscounted some Michigan votes.

Dominion software’s widespread use across states is a focus of Trump backers claiming fraud.

Krebs told associates this week he believes he will be fired, according to reports, and some detractors believe he is trying his best to get terminated — potentially to boost future career opportunities.

On Thursday, Krebs retweeted a message urging people not to circulate “wild and baseless claims about voting machines, even if they’re made by the president.”

“Krebs is trying to make himself a resistance hero, obviously,” the senior administration official said.

The official added: “It’s not surprising that Wolf would be protecting someone who worked closely with him under Nielsen along with Anonymous. It kinda makes you wonder if they’re putting the resistance ahead of the president they are supposed to be serving.”
 
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