Who Is Gregg Phillips, the Man Trump Name-Checked to Prove Voter Fraud?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Source: NBC

In his continued effort to argue that massive voter fraud took place in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump gave a shout-out Friday to Gregg Phillips, who has asserted that more than three million votes have been cast by non-citizens.

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So who is Phillips? He's a vocal conservative who founded a health-care-data company. And he's unwilling to share his illegal-vote findings to the public - at least for now.

Back in November - less than a week after Trump's presidential win - Phillips tweeted, "We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens. We are joining .@TrueTheVote to initiate legal action."


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Richard Hasen, an election-law expert at the University of California-Irvine School of Law, doesn't buy Phillips' allegations. "He's offered nothing credible whatsoever. It is his word, with absolutely no evidence so far."

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/who-gregg-phillips-man-trump-name-checked-prove-voter-fraud-n713186

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When I first saw the tweet, I just assumed this guy was the head of some DC conservative think tank and a regular Fox News contributor.

Then I saw the CNN interview and his own Twitter account, and damn, turns out he's just some random crazy dude peddling tinfoil conspiracy theories.

And yet the President of the United States, the most powerful country in the world, is citing to this man as if he's a renown expert in electoral politics. Unbelievable.

[Ilsa]

1. Cuomo nailed him on cnn this morning.

Basically made him say indirectly that the 3 million illegals number was pulled out of his ass.

[riversedge]

6. Glad to hear that. Thanks for post.

[underpants]

2. He says it will take "months" to get the numbers

which means his BS report will be released and blasted across the RW media. He'll be hailed as a champion. And the corrections will never pass in front of the eyes of the true believers.

[George II]

7. But he already said the numbers were "verified"! Which is it Gregg?

[Ilsa]

11. Someone looked up his ass and verified the numbers. NT

[George II]

12. I'd venture to guess that whoever it was, he found more polyps than fraudulent votes.

[Ilsa]

13. haaaaaa!!! That's great! nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Apparently this guy has a something of a bad past from his work in Texas government.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Privatization-role-reveals-ethics-gap-in-state-law-1940898.php

AUSTIN - When Deputy Health and Human Services Commissioner Gregg Phillips and private consultant Chris Britton helped write the $1 billion legislation to privatize Texas' human services system, they apparently did so partly with an eye on profit — their own.

A Houston Chronicle investigation into the activities of Britton, Phillips and Texas Workforce Commission Executive Director Larry Temple found weaknesses in Texas ethics laws concerning conflicts of interests and cronyism. Their relationships and how they benefited from state business illustrate how Texas law has overlooked the power of lower-level bureaucrats who are often charged with crafting laws.

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Phillips once headed the human services system in Mississippi, where legislators criticized him for giving a major state contract to a company, then going to work for the firm. In Texas, Phillips played a role in a major state contract going to another former employer in 2003.

•Phillips also apparently helped a business partner, Paige Harkins, get work advising companies on how to win Texas human services privatization contracts that he could influence. On at least one occasion, records indicate Harkins set up a meeting between Phillips and potential state vendors

[oberliner]

4. He's not exactly just "some random crazy dude"

He ran the Newt Gingrich for President SuperPAC (Winning Our Future) in 2012.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Yeah, looks like he's a crazy dude with a disgraced past in state government.

All the better.

[oberliner]

9. Did you see him on CNN?

Definitely not ready for prime time.

[Fla Dem]

14. But the RW loonies don't need anyone ready for primetime.

All they need is someone to yell loud enough some conspiratorial malarkey and get his moment on a credible news program, or FOX and they believe him. Doesn't matter how much Cuomo shredded his allegations. They just see a true patriot exposing illegal immigrants illegally voting and it buttresses all their beliefs and the MS Media trying to take him down.

If their stupid leader says it's so, then it must be so. Just like those f&%king pictures of the mall. They don't believe their own eyes, but believe the rantings of a crazy man. Nothing is going to change their minds.

[yallerdawg]

8. Just another rightwing shill pumping out garbage.

Just like that idiot in the White House.

[oberliner]

10. Exactly

Hopefully no one is buying it.

[3_Limes]

15. He seems to be condending that he's going to name these people.

He's going to release a list of the names of each illegal voter.

Short of magic, I can't think of anyway that could be accomplished.

[Gothmog]

16. This guy sounds like an idiot

He is affiliated with True the Vote which is a racist organization that thinks letting non-whites vote is voter fraud

[BamaRefugee]

17. Gregg Phillips is

that 400 pound guy lying on his bed with a laptop that Trumps talked about..

[BamaRefugee]

18. I'm shocked, deeply shocked

This All American He-Man owes $100,000 in unpaid taxes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/trump-voter-fraud-gregg-phillips-unpaid-taxes

[Fast Walker 52]

19. Phillips previously tweeted that Israel really hacked the DNC posing as Russia

and that Obama's DHS hacked the election.

Link to tweet

He's a crackpot.

[Percy Cholmondeley]

20. This is something they can build on

no matter how nonsensical. They need something to base their drastic voter suppression campaign on, which they're going to need a lot more next time, since the general public is waking up. Went on a march with family last Saturday, and I hope to see you all in Washington at the Scientists' march, whenever that is. I hope there are 2 million there. Or 3.