Trump Directs DOJ to Investigate Former Administration Officials Who Weaponized Their Positions to Undermine Him

President Donald Trump signed executive orders this week directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate two officials from his first administration and yank their security clearances. In his presidential memorandums, signed on April 9, Trump accuses former cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, a former low-level Department of Homeland Security staffer, of weaponizing their positions in the government to undermine him.

Krebs, a lawyer with a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences, led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) from November 2018 until November 17, 2020.

Following the rigged 2020 election, Krebs famously insisted that the election was “the most secure in American history” and that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”

He was removed from his post and later became a key witness before the partisan House January 6 Committee, where he blasted Republicans for questioning the outcome of the election. He went on to become an active member of the Biden regime’s vast censorship enterprise directed against Americans who questioned the 2020 election.

In his presidential memorandum, Trump said Krebs’ “disgraceful actions have taken the form of coercive threats against the private sector — including major social media platforms — to suppress conservative or dissenting voices and distort public opinion. Much of this censorship took place during a Presidential election with the apparent purpose of undermining the free exchange of ideas and debate.”

Christopher Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority. Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic. CISA, under Krebs’ leadership, suppressed conservative viewpoints under the guise of combatting supposed disinformation, and recruited and coerced major social media platforms to further its partisan mission. CISA covertly worked to blind the American public to the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop. Krebs, through CISA, promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices. Similarly, Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines. Krebs skewed the bona fide debate about COVID-19 by attempting to discredit widely shared views that ran contrary to CISA’s favored perspective.

Trump also directed the Justice Department to review Miles Taylor, the former DHS staff assistant who fed the New York Times anonymous “dirt” about the first Trump administration and went on to author a book titled “A Warning” before the 2020 election under the pretense that he was “a senior official” in the department.

Trump’s Presidential Memorandum suspends any active security clearance held by Taylor and his associates and calls for a review of his activities as a government employee.

Taylor is a bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government position, prioritizing his own ambition, personal notoriety, and monetary gain over fidelity to his constitutional oath.

While serving as an administrative staff assistant at the Department of Homeland Security, Taylor stoked dissension by manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed “resistance” within the federal government that “vowed” to undermine and render effective a sitting President.

Taylor published a book under the pseudonym “Anonymous,” full of falsehoods and fabricated stories.

Taylor disclosed sensitive information obtained through unauthorized methods and betrayed the confidence of those with whom he served.

Taylor relied upon various colleagues to facilitate his unethical laundering and release of sensitive government data to advance his false narratives.

Trump’s actions this week shows the president’s commitment to ending the left’s censorship regime, and its weaponization of government to punish political opponents.