WASHINGTON โ The U.S. cybersecurity official who was fired last month by President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday over threatening remarks by a lawyer for the president that prompted a wave of death threats against him.
Christopher Krebs says in the suit that he has been โbombardedโ with threats since attorney Joseph diGenova appeared on the pro-Trump TV network Newsmax and called for Krebs to be killed.
Amid the threats, Krebs, a Republican and Trump appointee, was forced to move out of his home in Virginia for several days and hire private security.
He still keeps his children from playing in their front yard out of fear, attorney Jim Walden said.
He won bipartisan praise as CISA coordinated federal state and local efforts to defend electoral systems from foreign or domestic interference.