Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “The acting U.S. attorney for Northern Georgia, who was named after his predecessor reportedly angered President Trump for not finding election fraud, told staffers in a conference call Monday that he dismissed two election fraud cases on his first day. ‘I would love to stand out on the street corner and scream this, and I can’t,’ said Bobby Christine, according to an audio recording of the call obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.”

“‘But I can tell you I closed the two most – I don’t know, I guess you’d call them high profile or the two most pressing election issues this office has,’ he said. ‘I said I believe, as many of the people around the table believed, there’s just nothing to them.’ Christine also said he found fewer election-related investigations in the office than he expected. Christine declined to comment on the call when contacted by the AJC Tuesday. Former U.S. Attorney Byung J. ‘BJay’ Pak, a Republican who had served since 2017, had planned to remain through the end of the Trump administration but resigned abruptly Jan. 4. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported the White House forced Pak to resign because Trump believed he was not being aggressive enough in investigating allegations of election fraud. In a call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger two days before Pak’s resignation, Trump disparaged Pak as a ‘never Trumper U.S. attorney.’ Christine, the U.S. attorney for Georgia’s Southern District, was appointed to replace him. The appointment bypassed the number two prosecutor in the office, Kurt Erskine, and raised fears of political interference as Trump was waging a campaign to overturn the results of the election.”