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BBM. Why on earth would a U.S. attorney make any comment at all about voter fraud? That makes zero sense. <modsnip - opinion stated as fact
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The committee first spoke to Pak in August. CNN reported that as part of his testimony, Pak said he stepped down as U.S. Attorney in Atlanta after Trump called Georgia’s secretary of state and tried to pressure him into saying there had been election fraud.
During that call, Trump referred to a “never-Trump” official, though he didn’t specifically say Pak’s name.
After Pak resigned, Trump appointed a new U.S. Attorney, and Pak said he had confidence in his successor.
According to a Senate Judiciary Committee interim staff report, “Pak’s office had investigated and debunked various allegations of election fraud in Georgia” by the time Trump called. The report alleges that Pak had planned to stay in his role until inauguration day and he was “personally very concerned” about Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
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Who is BJay Pak and why is he testifying in the Jan. 6 hearings?
BJay Pak, the former U.S. Attorney General for the Northern District of Georgia, will testify June 13 before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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Before his immediate resignation on January 4, Pak had told associates he had planned to stay on until the inauguration. It was later revealed, in reporting by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, that acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue had a phone call with Pak the night before his resignation. In that call, according to the Times, Donoghue relayed to Pak that the White House was frustrated with his failure to bring voter fraud investigations in the state. Pak himself has not said anything publicly about why he left his post earlier than planned.
By the afternoon of January 6, the shake-up had been overshadowed, first by Democrats’ dual wins in the Georgia special Senate elections, and then by the insurrection at the US Capitol.
Days later, Christine in a private call with the Atlanta’s office staff, told them that “there’s just nothing to” the election issues the office was looking into, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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