It was Trump who signed the executive order that created the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which serves as the operational lead for federal cybersecurity and plays key roles in virtually every aspect of America’s cybersecurity policy, ranging from misinformation to infrastructure resilience to AI governance. But when the agency’s first director, Chris Krebs, rebuked Trump’s false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, the president fired him.
