Report: "No evidence" of postal worker's voter fraud claims cited by Trump

• The Trump campaign alerted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to Hopkins' unfounded allegations in November. Graham then wrote a letter demanding a federal investigation into the state's election results, the Washington Post notes.

Driving the news: Hopkins worked with the right-wing Project Veritas to publicly release a sworn affidavit outlining his allegations last November.

• Hopkins, who was hailed as a "brave patriot" by Trump for his action, recanted his allegations soon after.
• He "revised his initial claims" during an interview with federal agents, "eventually stating that he had not heard a conversation about ballots at all — rather he saw the Postmaster and Supervisor having a discussion and assumed it was about fraudulent ballot backdating," according to the inspector general's report.
• "Hopkins has been suspended without pay since Nov. 10," WashPost reports.

Worth noting: The Trump administration's Department of Justice found no evidence of widespread fraud in the U.S.

• Representatives for the inspector general, USPS, Trump and Graham did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.