The reason for the sudden resignation of the first U.S. attorney general of Korean descent in January was the strong pressure of then-President Donald Trump.



It is said that this is the result of complaints that Park Byung-jin (American name BJay Pak), then the Northern District Attorney for Georgia, did not properly handle the investigation into the election fraud claimed by former President Trump.



The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by the Democratic Party, released an investigation report on the 7th (local time) that former President Donald Trump exerted pressure on the Justice Department to overturn the election results since the November election.



Here, the resignation process of former prosecutor Park is introduced separately.



At that time, great friction arose when Trump, who was dissatisfied with the presidential election, claimed that there was fraud in the Georgia election, the most contested state, and the governor and state secretary of state, who belonged to the same party, refuted the claim.



In the midst of this, former prosecutor Park, who was in charge of the investigation, suddenly resigned on January 4 this year, raising questions about the background.



The Judiciary Committee report noted that former President Trump forced Park to resign.



According to the report, former Attorney General Park investigated the election fraud through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), but found no evidence to support the election fraud, including the claim that travel bags containing illegal ballot papers were counted at a single polling station in Georgia.



Former President Trump denounced former prosecutor Park as a 'Never Trumper'.



At the White House meeting on January 3, he also told Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and then Acting Attorney General Richard Donahue that he wanted to fire former Attorney General Park.



Acting Prosecutor Donahue objected that there was no reason to fire him, but said that former prosecutor Park had already planned to resign the next day.



Trump was tempered, and he agreed not to fire him first if former prosecutor Park resigned the next day.



Acting Prosecutor Donahuet called former Prosecutor Park Park that night and told him that it would be best to resign quietly after explaining the situation.



Former Prosecutor Park submitted a resignation letter on the morning of January 4th.



However, the report said that former prosecutor Park had no intention of resigning on January 4.



In order not to affect the January 5, Georgia Senate runoff, he submitted his resignation immediately after the vote, but the actual resignation was planned for the 20th of the same month as President Joe Biden took office.



After all, at the White House meeting on January 3, former President Trump's dismissal remarks and Acting Donahue's phone call seem to have accelerated the timing of his resignation.



After that, former President Trump appointed Bobby Christine, Georgia Attorney General for the Northern District, to also serve as the Southern Attorney General.



This goes beyond the hierarchy of the Deputy Attorney General when a vacancy arises.



The report said the former president thought it was because he thought Chief Prosecutor Christine would do something about his allegations of electoral fraud.



Former prosecutor Park, who immigrated with her parents when she was 9 years old, worked as a prosecutor and a lawyer. Since 2011, she has served as a member of the Georgia State House of Representatives three times. I did.



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