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Surely you remember Jesse Morgan, the York County resident who came forward in early December 2020 with a story about thousands of stolen mail-in ballots.
Morgan, a truck driver for a company that delivered large volumes of mail for the U.S. Postal Service, said a trailer he hauled from New York to Lancaster on Oct. 21, 2020, was full of ballots already filled out by Pennsylvania voters. Those ballots, he said, went missing after he parked the truck trailer at the Post Office on Harrisburg Pike that evening.
Where did all those ballots go, Morgan wondered. His story was amplified by supporters of President Donald Trump, who blamed his loss in the November 2020 election on massive fraud in closely fought swing states like Pennsylvania.
Morgan’s story got lost in the tumultuous weeks leading up to Biden’s inauguration. But it wasn’t forgotten by many LNP | LancasterOnline readers who continue to call or write this newsroom asking about it.
It turns out that Morgan’s story wasn’t ignored by federal investigators. Agents from four agencies worked for months attempting to verify Morgan’s account. Earlier this year, and without any fanfare, a federal inspector general published a lengthy report concluding that Morgan’s story was, well, bunk.
It’s not hard to understand why Morgan stuck in the minds of so many people. First, he fit the mold of a working-class American – a bearded, husky man in his 30s with tattooed arms and a general body language that screamed “salt of the earth regular guy.”
He related his account with humor and deliberate-but-unrehearsed pacing. He was believable – a guy you’d have fun drinking a beer with or joining at a local fishing hole.
“I’m going to tell you how I see it, and I’m a pretty straight shooter,” Morgan said at the press conference. “I didn’t want to come, I tell you what. I have everything to lose and nothing to gain from this, all right?"
The investigation resulted in a report from the Inspector General’s Office of the U.S. Postal Service. It’s a curious document. For one, Morgan’s name never appears in it. Well, the name is in there, but it’s redacted, a strange choice given Morgan’s widespread appearance on cable news when he first told his story.
It’s not hard to understand why Morgan stuck in the minds of so many people. First, he fit the mold of a working-class American – a bearded, husky man in his 30s with tattooed arms and a general body language that screamed “salt of the earth regular guy.”
He related his account with humor and deliberate-but-unrehearsed pacing. He was believable – a guy you’d have fun drinking a beer with or joining at a local fishing hole.
“I’m going to tell you how I see it, and I’m a pretty straight shooter,” Morgan said at the press conference. “I didn’t want to come, I tell you what. I have everything to lose and nothing to gain from this, all right?"
The investigation resulted in a report from the Inspector General’s Office of the U.S. Postal Service. It’s a curious document. For one, Morgan’s name never appears in it. Well, the name is in there, but it’s redacted, a strange choice given Morgan’s widespread appearance on cable news when he first told his story.
It’s not hard to understand why Morgan stuck in the minds of so many people. First, he fit the mold of a working-class American – a bearded, husky man in his 30s with tattooed arms and a general body language that screamed “salt of the earth regular guy.”
He related his account with humor and deliberate-but-unrehearsed pacing. He was believable – a guy you’d have fun drinking a beer with or joining at a local fishing hole.
“I’m going to tell you how I see it, and I’m a pretty straight shooter,” Morgan said at the press conference. “I didn’t want to come, I tell you what. I have everything to lose and nothing to gain from this, all right?"
The investigation resulted in a report from the Inspector General’s Office of the U.S. Postal Service. It’s a curious document. For one, Morgan’s name never appears in it. Well, the name is in there, but it’s redacted, a strange choice given Morgan’s widespread appearance on cable news when he first told his story.
It’s not hard to understand why Morgan stuck in the minds of so many people. First, he fit the mold of a working-class American – a bearded, husky man in his 30s with tattooed arms and a general body language that screamed “salt of the earth regular guy.”
He related his account with humor and deliberate-but-unrehearsed pacing. He was believable – a guy you’d have fun drinking a beer with or joining at a local fishing hole.
“I’m going to tell you how I see it, and I’m a pretty straight shooter,” Morgan said at the press conference. “I didn’t want to come, I tell you what. I have everything to lose and nothing to gain from this, all right?"
The investigation resulted in a report from the Inspector General’s Office of the U.S. Postal Service. It’s a curious document. For one, Morgan’s name never appears in it. Well, the name is in there, but it’s redacted, a strange choice given Morgan’s widespread appearance on cable news when he first told his story.
Investigators from the FBI, the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the USPS inspector general’s office spoke to 20 witnesses, including numerous postal workers and officials from Morgan’s company, Ten Roads Eagle.
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