New York.
the White house forced the resignation this week of a federal prosecutor in Georgia for not supporting attempts by outgoing President Donald Trump to investigate alleged electoral fraud in this key state he lost in last November’s election, he reported this Saturday The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The prosecutor, Byung J. Pak, Who had been nominated by Trump himself, announced his resignation by surprise last Monday, a day before the second round of elections in the Senate in Georgia, who ended up giving control of the Upper House to Democrats.
According to the WSJ, which cites anonymous sources, the resignation came after a senior official of the Department of Justice called at the request of the White house to Pak and ordered him to leave the place.
The reason, according to the newspaper, is that Trump felt that the prosecutor was not doing enough to investigate the alleged electoral fraud during last November’s presidential election, which the president has been denouncing without evidence since his defeat.
The resignation came a day after the audio of a call made by Trump to secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, In which he asked him to “find” thousands of votes in his favor in the state.
As also revealed this Saturday by the WSJ, before this call the outgoing president had already contacted in December another state official to demand evidence of the alleged fraud and other representatives of the White house they had been doing the same thing for weeks.
The authorities of Georgia they have so far refuted all of Trump’s accusations about an allegation electoral fraud in the state, which the current president lost by 11,779 votes in the November elections and where there have already been three counts to corroborate the election result.
Trump has also denounced alleged fraud in other states in which he lost and has filed several lawsuits that have so far been rejected by judges.
This week, the U.S. Congress ratified the Democrat victory Joe Biden on a day when he had to stop for hours the meeting for the assault on the Chapters starring outgoing president supporters and which left four dead.