The White House acceded a senior Justice Department official to Atlanta’s top U.S. attorney on Jan. 3, causing his resignation as part of a lobbying campaign to change the results of the U.S. presidential election. 2020, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
In a late-night phone call, DOJ official told U.S.-appointed Trump prosecutor Byung J. Pak that President Trump was furious that Atlanta federals were not investigating election fraud. according to the report.
The DOJ official told Pak that Trump wanted to fire him, prompting the top prosecutor to resign the next day, a day before the second round of elections in the U.S. Senate in Georgia, according to the ‘report.
Pak had cited “unforeseen circumstances” in leaving office.
The pressure campaign against Pak was part of the president’s weekly attempt to alter his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden, the newspaper said.
The newspaper also reported that while Georgia election officials verified the signatures of the absentee ballots last month, the White House pressured the lead investigator to “find the fraud, telling him it would make him” a national hero. “.
The day before Pak’s January 2 call, Trump personally urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to recalculate the election count in Peach State to “find” enough votes to annul it. lar the victory of Biden, according to the recordings of the heated call.