The White House placed a senior Justice Department official on the top U.S. attorney from Atlanta on Jan. 3, resigning him as part of a push campaign to change the 2020 presidential election results, The Wall Street Journal reported. .
In a nighttime phone call, the DOJ official told Trump-appointed US attorney Byung J. Pak that President Trump was outraged that the FBI in Atlanta was not investigating election fraud, the report said.
The DOJ official told Pak Trump wanted to fire him, prompting the highest prosecutor to resign the next day, a day before the second round of the U.S. Senate elections, the report said.
Pak had called “unforeseen circumstances” when he stepped down.
The pressure campaign against Pak was part of the president’s attempt to correct his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden, the Journal said.
The paper also reported that when election officials in Georgia verified signatures on 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 the call to Pak, on Jan. 2, Trump personally urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to recalculate the number of elections in Peach State to “ find enough votes ” to reverse Biden’s victory. make, according to the recordings of the heated call.