Postal worker claims prove unfounded

ABC News quotes congressional aides as saying a Pennsylvania postal worker has recanted claims that supervisors tried to backdate ballots mailed after the election.  The false allegations were cited by the Trump camp and top Republicans, including South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, as potential examples of voter fraud impacting the results of the presidential election.  Erie, Pennsylvania postal worker Richard Hopkins alleged he overhead supervisors discussing a plan to backdate mail-in ballots for Election Day.  But, according to ABC, the House Oversight Committee was told yesterday that  Hopkins walked back his assertions when questioned by federal investigators.  A Trump campaign attorney, Matt Morgan, downplays Hopkins’ backtrack, describing it as “one paragraph in which we cite that of 243 paragraphs in the complaint” filed in court.