Oriental Net · Longitudinal News Reporter Xie Sihe
As a "evidence" that both Democrats and Republicans are fighting for, Hopkins has become a "swingman".
According to news from the New York Times on the evening of Tuesday (November 10), the Inspector General of the United States Postal Service notified Congress on Tuesday that Hopkins, an employee who had previously accused the Erie County Postal System of Pennsylvania of vote fraud, had denied his confession. However, what is unexpected is that Hopkins' position reversed again a few hours later.
According to sources, the Democratic leadership of the House Oversight and Reform Committee said that the Office of the Inspector General stated that Richard Hopkins, an employee of the Erie County Post Office, had "completely" given up the previous complaint after being questioned by the inspectors. Allegations of "tampering with mailed ballots" by internal supervisors. According to news from
, the post office inspectors interviewed Hopkins last Friday. Hopkins dropped the charges against the supervisor yesterday (Monday), but did not explain why he had signed a false statement of testimony before.
Earlier, in a statement of testimony to the Trump campaign team, he said that he overheard a retrospective discussion by insiders about the ballots arriving at the post office after election day. In his statement, he said: "Any allegations of voting violations or improper conduct should be made public." The statement of
was refuted by the postmaster of Yili. He stated in a Facebook post. These allegations are "100% wrong".
Erie County Election Committee Chairman Carl Anderson said that of the approximately 135,000 ballots issued by Erie County, only 130 mailed ballots arrived after election day. He said in a statement that the post office’s procedures were legal and had undergone strict review.
The Republican Senator Graham wrote a letter to the Department of Justice based on Hopkins’s statement, urging the Department of Justice to initiate a federal investigation. The Attorney General subsequently took a controversial move to give prosecutors the green light to investigate the matter.
Just two hours after the Democratic Party announced the news, a reporter from the conservative organization "Project Veritas" posted a video on Twitter in which Hopkins claimed that he was played by the inspectors. And insisted that he "did not give up" his previous confession.
This response was reposted by Trump on Twitter, calling him a "brave patriot".
