USPS 'Whistleblower' Told Agents Project Veritas Penned His Ballot-Tampering Claim

[UpInArms]

Source: Daily Beast

A postal worker whose allegation of ballot-tampering was at the center of Republican efforts to challenge the outcome of the presidential election has admitted to investigators that Project Veritas actually penned the affidavit laying out his claims. A two-hour audio recording released by Project Veritas on Wednesday shows Richard Hopkins being interviewed by federal investigators over his claim, first publicized by Project Veritas, that he had overheard a postmaster instructing workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, to backdate mail-in votes to meet the Election Day deadline. The audio had been touted by the conservative group as proof that Hopkins was manipulated by investigators but still stood by his allegations, despite House Democrats saying earlier this week that the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General told them Hopkins admitted to fabricating the claims.

But instead, it captured him doing the very opposite, according to The Washington Post. When he was asked if he wanted to stick with his claim about ballot-tampering, Hopkins said, “At this point? No.” He said his allegation had stemmed from “assumptions” he made after overhearing tidbits of staffers’ conversations in the mail facility. Hopkins told investigators not only that his affidavit was written by Project Veritas but that he wasn’t even entirely sure of what the group had included in it because he was in “so much shock I wasn’t paying that much attention to what they were telling me.” A spokesman for Project Veritas acknowledged having a hand in the affidavit but insisted that the “affidavit was drafted with Mr. Hopkins’ input and requested revisions,” according to the Post.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/usps-staffer-richard-hopkins-told-agents-project-veritas-penned-his-ballot-tampering-claim

[orwell]

1. So "Project Veritas"...

...is lying?

Well that's a shocker.

Next you'll tell me that Hannity makes shit up...

[certainot]

19. speaking of talk radio... last week or maybe monday limbaugh mentioned some 'reporting' by o'keefe

suggesting voter fraud. maybe the same thing. suggesting and proving are the same thing when 200 blowhards can repeat it to tens of millions of listeners as if it is fact

[mdbl]

43. that is exactly how he built his audience of dodoheads

by repeating bullshit.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

29. In case anyone reading that is Latin deficient

"Veritas" means "truth".

[tanyev]

31. Should be Project VeryCrass.

[LuvLoogie]

38. Project Ferret Ass

[Cha]

70. lol!

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

40. I suggest "Project Mendacium" -- Project Lie n/t

[JawJaw]

48. Project RatFuckers n/t

[Wicked Blue]

45. Veritas spelled backward is Satire V.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

55. Established right after Satire IV.

KY..........

[orwell]

68. Two years of Latin...

...One year of Homeric Greek.

I've used that a lot when I'm talking to really old mediterranean people...

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

73. I have an MA in History of Religion

Latin, Greek, and German were required, and French was strongly encouraged -- along with other languages if you knew any.

I have to admit that I barely scraped by on the Greek exam, and I haven't read any since then.

[Cha]

69. Yes.. Gaslighting Orwellian to the

Max.

[Cartaphelius]

2. And, of course, Project Veritas is

demonstrating their professionalism by throwing
a postal worker under a bus, any bus, in order
to maintain their face of anti-democratic bias.

[Botany]

3. Isn't Project Veritas a James O'Keef thing?

n/t

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Yes

nt

[Botany]

14. I wonder who funds him?

n/t

[PatSeg]

27. Same here

Every time the name comes up, I'm surprised to hear they are still around. I can't imagine who funds them, as they usually get caught and aren't terribly effective.

[Botany]

33. These shits are useful to the right wing ... Mercers, Kochs, Hertigage Foundation, Fossil Fuel $s..

... and so on. O'Keefe should be in jail for trying to bribe an Erie, PA USPS manager to say that
the ballots somehow got messed with. I wonder who gave O'Keefe the money with which to offer
the bribe?

Link to tweet

[PatSeg]

34. I'm especially surprised that O'Keefe

is still at it, as he's already gotten in all kinds of legal trouble, but nothing seems to stop him. I agree, he should be in jail, but he appears to have enough money behind him to keep bailing him out of trouble.

"Project Veritas army of truth-tellers"??? Oh, that's rich!

[Botany]

37. He had to cut a lot of his crap out in the 20teens for a few years because he was on probation

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I hope Biden's DoJ goes after his attempt to bribe USPS people.

[PatSeg]

39. Ooooh, a Biden DoJ is really something

to look forward to, isn't it? So many people need to be held accountable, because as we can see, they keep coming back again and again to create more corruption and chaos.

[Botany]

42. i want that phony "tough boy" O'Keefe, to sit down with some FBI agents and explain the attempted...

... bribes and who was funding them. Trying to bribe people to perjure themselves in order to in
order to screw with the results of a Presidential election has to break some kind of law or laws.

A new A.G. Glenn Kirschner would be a good start.

[PatSeg]

47. Kirschner would be a good choice

There are so many to choose from!

[Maraya1969]

58. OHHHHH the Biden DOJ! It's hard to believe that people like him refuse

to do anything legitimately. Their MO is deceit.

[Gore1FL]

52. One would hope he would eventually Jacob Wohl himself. nt

[Sudsy]

51. Donors Trust

and Donors Capital Fund were the largest sugar daddies in 2016.

[not_the_one]

56. Didn't Rebecca Mercer just send some love their way?

This family needs to be taken down. Along with the Kochs. And a few more...

[TexasBushwhacker]

62. He needs to go to prison n/t

[Mc Mike]

4. O'Pimpy and veritas should be charged with felonies, again.

[NewJeffCT]

28. Yes

nobody should even be taking them seriously, either.

[Mc Mike]

30. They can do time with Wohl and Burkman. And Bannon.

And Jones and Stone.

[JDC]

5. These people all need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law

[liberalla]

9. + 1000 !

[Mike 03]

6. Shit gets real when you're looking a pair of F.B.I. agents in the eyes.

Many of these bogus witnesses to voter fraud are going to see things differently in an interrogation room.

Trained agents are really good at dislodging the truth. It's one thing to watch an interrogation on YouTube and think, "Heck, I can fool these idiots" and another entirely to spend a couple of hours under the scrutiny of experts in questioning witnesses.

[ecstatic]

11. Lol! He correctly decided not to be the next stooge to get locked up for trump. Nt

[TreasonousBastard]

25. I remember how I felt when a couple of beat Transit cops took me down to their little dungeon...

Took and hour or so for detectives to show up, and I was shitting my pants until they did. Turned out I was cleared-- just looked a little like the guy. But it was a high profile case and NYC cops were turning everything upside down.

Can't imagine the pressure the fed can put on you.

[liberalla]

8. Hallelujah that this is being revealed!

Bookmarking to follow!

[Doodley]

10. Project Veritas is not a credible source of information. If this is the best the right have to

justify ignoring the democratic wishes of the American people, then fuck them! They are happy to destroy American democracy based on this?

[Cirque du So-What]

17. ...

[olegramps]

12. Just to what extent are these traitors willing to go to that will destroy the nation's credibility?

I really wish the nation a better future than is appears will be possible at this period. It is at the point of absolute insanity that could only be expect in a mental hospital filled with seriously delusional patients. It is like attending the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice in Wonderland with 70 million people who have accepted the most bizarre utterances from a madman as pearls of wisdom.

[Iliyah]

13. Those 11,000 . ..

affidavits are fake too.

[brewens]

15. I wondered if "O'Queef" was behind this the first time I heard of it. I knew they would be

ginning something up.

[obamanut2012]

18. Why are you calling him a slang term for a woman's genitals?

He is a man. Why not O'Dickhead or something? Why the gendered snark?

[brewens]

20. I would think that would be obvious. n/t

[intheflow]

21. Probably because it's rhymes with O'Keefe.

The man behind Project Veritas.

Also, queefe is not women's genitals, it's a sound a vagina sometimes makes. Akin to a fart, but obviously not made for the same reasons.

[Judi Lynn]

22. I automatically guessed it was a result of mixing O'Keefe and Captain Queeg together, for fun. n/t

[ResistantAmerican17]

16. So if I understand correctly, saying "my uncle saw a post on Facebook"

does not meet the evidentiary threshold to bring about charges of election fraud? Oh, and fuck O Keefe. What a tool.

[Judi Lynn]

23. Great catch, UpInArms. ⭐️ n/t

[Mr. Ected]

24. Why is it every GOP investigation into voter fraud inevitably uncovers

Proof of GOP fraud?

[dawg day]

26. So... could this mean James O'Keefe could be charged?

perjury?

[GopherGal]

60. I'm no lawyer, but...

"Conspiracy to suborn perjury may be prosecuted irrespective of whether perjury has been committed."

[link:https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1752-subornation-perjury|]

It sounds like a major pillar in the GOP's strategy for the past few days has been "conspiracy to suborn perjury"

[yaesu]

32. Well, these fraudsters better change their website

Project Veritas notes on its website that it "does not advocate specific resolutions to the issues that are raised through its investigations, nor do we encourage others to do so."

[mzmolly]

35. Might a charge of election interference

be in order?

[turbinetree]

36. There are laws on the books against this Veritas shit and they should be charged

and prosecuted to the full extent, this is more than election fraud................conspiracy comes to mind to commit a crime...........

[Happy Hoosier]

41. Hands... who DIDN'T expect this?

James O'Keefe is a liar. He needs to be in jail.

[ProfessorGAC]

64. I'm Seeing The Hands...

...of every DUer currently logged in!

[dalton99a]

44. Kick

[CatLady78]

46. Project Veritas

I thought they got egg on their face so many times, they were totally discredited...

[BlueNProud]

49. These f ers need to be put "inside" for a year or so

surely bribing a postal worker regarding a federal election can result in jail time no?

[Initech]

50. Project Veritas can go eat a steaming bag of rancid dog shit.

I hate these fuckers almost as much as I hate COVID-19.

[Kaleva]

53. I'm confused. I thought the postal worker recanted his recant yesterday?

[questionseverything]

67. He did

O’keefe put out a doctored false version that said different

Okeefe was the guy that dressed as a pimp,shot some film doctored it to look bad and got Acorn defund

[OneBro]

54. What was he in "so much shock" about?

Hopkins told investigators not only that his affidavit was written by Project Veritas but that he wasn’t even entirely sure of what the group had included in it because he was in “so much shock I wasn’t paying that much attention to what they were telling me.”

I think the guy just got caught. He and Project Veritas cooked up a crooked, goofy scheme that went bust. Now he's claiming childlike innocence.

[Blue Owl]

57. That piece of shit "O'Keefe" has raped and murdered the term "veritas"

That should be a crime in itself

[LuvNewcastle]

65. O'Keefe is a hemorrhoid that fell from

the ass of Roger Stone. I wish them both a jail cell together and each of them a horrible case of hemorrhoids with nowhere to sit but a concrete floor.

[AwakeAtLast]

59. Lock. Them. Up! n/t

[PATRICK]

61. Few understand the USPS

and how it does or does not work. So unless the media is willing to educate people about the whole reality or the workings inside it should not give ignoramuses a soapbox. Any USPS employee badmouthing the service in this way especially is not good for their future employment. Anyone actually attempting to tamper with the mail will be breaking rocks in Leavenworth as their only retirement benefit.

What actually happened was that ballots were expedited even by express, postmarks(of the day received!!!) ensured, short postage ignored and the order was out to all management to do these things and all things necessary to accomplish the above. Ironically, people have been educated for years now of the "relaxed" service standards. The vast, vast bulk of ballots arrived weeks before the election and tapered off dramatically the final week. The unique several methods of voting obviously swelled the number overall. If you watch a video of states working with USPS solely you see a totally organized system that ensures fewer falling in the cracks- like voters messing up the envelopes, bad addresses. Still, those are very few.

The ballots mainly came through my business mail machine. As a rough guess the major city ballots far outweighed the towns in a way that suggests that pro-Biden votes dominated in the mail. This is upstate NY. I am sure that such estimations are key in judging the outcome of mail in ballots as atypical as this year makes them. Real absentee ballots for Pennsylvania were almost completely done(I never saw one the final week) way before the date. Ballots were checked, rechecked, Lord knows how many times for a legible cancellation date. The only ballots trickling in, a couple a day? one can only guess at the reason. Ballots from overseas(all dated!) are still popping up from as long ago as September. People paid express mail postage on election day to get their ballots more assurance.

At our place no backdating, as irrelevant that would be regarding the election numbers, only to your prison term.

We did our jobs- with belated encouragement from our Trump toady PG-USA. Experienced hard working clerks. Now we have to see about the loser's revenge agenda which not all Americans understand is "defunding the USPS" by doing nothing. Then the barbaric ravaging of the public commons(as opposed to the decades long gradual privatization moves!) by selling off the universal service to make a few rich people richer). We joyfully await POUTUS's scorched earth tantrum.

This man should never have been allowed to be President. I have been absent since election night 2016 for that reason. He would have "won" again if not for bungling a quarter of million Americans to death. Since the Whiner in Chief has declared open season for election purity how about more stridently dissecting the GOP crookedness? That's the only thing that shut Nixon up.

Every nation historically in times of trouble or orneriness goes enthusiastically for the worst form of patriotism and the most irrational form of nationalism. This one might have gone to the negative without the poor quality of the current demagogue. Most products of this type of national will are terrible. Luckily, we had the most incompetent.

[CottonBear]

63. Thank you PATRICK. N/T

[BobTheSubgenius]

66. A great take on it from a viewpoint of knowledge.

Thank you!!!

[underpants]

71. No, come on, not O'Keefe!!!!! LMFAO.

Wow he really sucks at what he does.

[Hestia]

72. Left a bad taste on how Dem's threw ACORN under the bus thanks to this guy

All those problems we are still fighting today - rent assistance, mortgage assistance, voters to the polls, police brutality, active in 24 states - extremely effective at what they were doing for over 40 years - after the pimp video came out, Dem's threw them under the bus, and instead of actively supporting them by donating and keeping them going, all federal funding was stripped out of the budget for ACORN and that was that. An over 40 year old network dismantled at the snap of the fingers. We'd be so much further along in fighting the good fight instead of helping Teabaggers & PV make a name for themselves...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/acorn-and-the-firestorm/

You can stream on netflix

I'm still bitter about it. ACORN started in Little Rock, Ark and was aware of what great group and the work they were/are and couldn't understand the lack of help from the 'wokes'. Van Jones being forced out of the administration came soon afterwards..