Perhaps more than any other official he’s been in the crosshairs of Republicans in the wake of the election. He’s a Republican, but those within his own party told him to step down.
He has rebuffed those demands, and on Tuesday said he remains a “conservative Republican, and that hasn’t changed” though he ducked the offer by moderator Yamiche Alcindor, a PBS reporter, to say whether he regretted his vote for Mr. Trump.
The president has insisted he is the winner of the election, but says fraud and other malfeasance have denied him his victory. His team has filed dozens of legal challenges, but they’ve been spectacularly unsuccessful in those cases, with judges spanning the country and the ideological spectrum saying he hasn’t proved his case.
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He contended that bureaucratic opposition from within and from Capitol Hill to needed reforms including major personnel security problems and bias within VOA’s Chinese and South Asian services reflected the politicization and bias of mainstream media outlets that reached a crescendo during the Trump administration.
“The culture in the VOA newsroom and a lot of the journalists working here is not that dissimilar to the culture of journalists working in the mainstream media more generally,” he said. “Our journalists look up to The Washington Post and The New York Times and CNN as their model.”
Mr. Pack said the bias made it difficult for him and others leading the USAGM to return the outlets to honoring their legal obligation to present unbiased and balanced news reports.
Who Is Jeffrey Rosen, Who Will Lead the Justice Dept. for Trumpâs Endgame?
Attorney General William P. Barrâs resignation makes his low-profile deputy the nationâs top law enforcement official for President Trumpâs last month.
Jeffrey A. Rosen has kept a low profile as deputy attorney general.Credit.Ting Shen for The New York Times
Dec. 15, 2020
WASHINGTON â When the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, testified at his confirmation hearing in April 2019, he seemed to pledge to keep politics out of law enforcement decisions, telling the Senate: âI would expect in all prosecutorial matters to proceed on the facts and the law and not any improper political influences.â
Barack Obama, with the help of his secretary of state, John Kerry, made the Paris Climate Accord a staple of his presidency. That accord was portrayed as a do-good framework aimed at lowering the global temperature via a reduction in worldwide carbon emissions. The reality, though, was that it would only negligibly lower temperatures at best, and it also wrongly assumed member countries would follow our lead. (Trusting China to follow through on a commitment is tantamount to believing its âofficialâ COVID death toll or that its coronavirus vaccine is 86% effective.) Oh, and most importantly, the climate agreement didnât follow our Constitutionâs protocols. More on that in a bit.