Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor stood behind the president when he signed the legislation bringing CISA into law.
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Deadline: White HouseOct 22, 2026
The passage says "Chris Krebs and I stood behind the president's shoulder" and then addresses Miles Taylor as a separate person, so the speaker is not Taylor. The claim's naming of Miles Taylor therefore departs from the passage. Sources confirm Krebs was present at the 2018 CISA signing, but none place Taylor there.
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What was said
… What are your thoughts on that? It is up to us, and the congressman and I have talked about this before, publicly and privately. So many of those structures were put in place, ironically, during that first Trump administration. I mean, Chris Krebs and I stood behind the president's shoulder when he signed the legislation bringing CISA into law to be that election security hub inside the federal government. But I'll tell you, there was an ominous moment when that happened: is the president turned around and he looked at me and he said, basically, what the hell did I just sign? …
Deadline: White House · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The official 2018 remarks at the CISA Act signing thank Undersecretary Chris Krebs for being present, which supports Krebs being there.[1]
Context. Sources on Taylor (e.g., the 2025 memoranda and investigation coverage) describe him as a former DHS official, but none state he attended the 2018 signing.[2][3][4]
Context. The post's "I" is the speaker, who is addressed separately from Miles Taylor in the passage, so the extraction's substitution of Taylor for the speaker is not the post's claim.
Sources
4 sources: 1 primary, 3 not rated
- 1Remarks by President Trump at Signing of H.R.3359 ...trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2LWV Staff | League of Women Voterslwv.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 3On Targetsstatesunited.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Is this the moment American democracy finally broke?alternet.org · not rated · cited for: context
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Related claims
- Donald Trump signed the legislation establishing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).True
- Donald Trump signed CISA legislation into law that created election security architecture.True
- Chris Krebs helped create CISA during the first Trump administration.True
- Chris Krebs served as the director of CISA.True
- CISA was established by George W. Bush and Donald Trump.Mixed