An official in President Joe Biden's Department of Justice blocked United States senators from asking former DOJ officials about what they did to investigate former President Donald Trump's "voter fraud" conspiracy theories.
Politico reports that veteran DOJ attorney Bradley Weinsheimer repeatedly frustrated senators from both parties who tried enquiring about the DOJ's efforts to probe claims of election fraud, as he "cited guidance he issued in July that paved the way for congressional testimony but limited the topics former DOJ officials were permitted to discuss."
For example, when senators tried asking Byung Pak, a former U.S. attorney from the Atlanta area, whether Trump officials had actually given him any proof to back up their claims about thousands of felons improperly voting in Georgia, Weinsheimer immediately intervened.
"You're getting into specific investigations that don't have anything to do with specific pressure put on Mr. Pak, and so I would object," he said, according to transcripts obtained by Politico.
This drew the ire of Sara Zdeb, chief oversight counsel for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL).
"It seems to me that it is inherent in understanding … whether there were particular things that [White House chief of Staff Mark Meadows], the President thought that Mr. Pak's office ought to be looking into that they were not looking into," she replied.
Nonetheless, Weinsheimer didn't back down and the committee's questions in this matter were left unanswered.
In other news, a bombshell Senate report released today identified the pro-Trump lawmaker who help install "coup" advocates at the Justice Department. WATCH:
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