On January 3, the White House put a senior Justice Department official at Atlanta’s leading U.S. attorney and caused his resignation as part of a pressure campaign to change the results of the 2020 presidential election, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The report said the DOJ official said during a late phone call to Trump, U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak, that President Trump was furious.
The DOJ official told Pak that Trump wanted to fire him, and asked the top prosecutor to resign the next day, one day before Georgia’s U.S. Senate by-elections, the report said.
Pak called ‘unforeseen circumstances’ when he retired.
The pressure campaign against Pak was part of the president’s week-long effort to reverse his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden, the Journal said.
The newspaper also reported that the White House had put pressure on the chief investigator to find the fraud and tell him that it would become him a national hero.
The day before the appeal to Pak, on January 2, Trump personally called on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to recalculate the Peach State election to “find” enough votes to secure Biden’s victory. times, according to recordings of the intense call.