Trump moves to legally enforce 2020 election denialism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump nominated Chris Krebs to lead the agency.
53% : We need to strip funding for research into climate change and instead boost coal production.
50% : In October 2020, a Department of Homeland Security report identified evidence that foreign adversaries were "using covert and overt influence measures" to try to affect votes "and the electoral process itself."
50% : In signing the executive order targeting Krebs, Trump made clear his intent.
48% : Trump had the pretext he needed for Wednesday's action.
43% : " We've seen this before, from Trump and others in his second administration: Use the credibility of the office and the government to undermine reality in service of right-wing rhetoric.
40% : As people learned that those companies had been briefed about potential foreign threats, a narrative emerged that the government had told the companies to limit the story -- however incongruous it was that the government was at that time led by Trump himself.
31% : Anytime a new theory emerged about how the election might have been stolen, Trump shared it with the American public as if it were fact -- which at no point it was.
30% : CISA's rejection of Trump's claims was fading into history until Wednesday, when Trump announced that he was removing Krebs's security clearance and calling for the Justice Department to launch a fishing expedition, seeking out any scintillas of illegality in which Krebs or CISA might theoretically have been engaged.
30% : The president's targeting of Krebs is in part a product of the massive economy Trump created by denying the 2020 election results.
25% : Trump, who had for months been stoking the idea that there was something uncertain or unstable about the U.S. electoral process, seized on the idea that the election had been stolen.
24% : Calling for an investigation of Krebs is flatly authoritarian, perhaps more so than any other example of Trump going after his enemies.
18% : Trump took this badly.

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