MS GOPer Who Pushed Voter Fraud Myth Says He’s Getting Death Threats

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A former Mississippi official who pushed unsubstantiated claims that “more than three million” votes were cast in the 2016 election by undocumented immigrants said in an interview published Thursday that he has received death threats.

“There are people who want to kill me,” Gregg Phillips, a Republican operative and former state official, said in an interview with The Clarion-Ledger. “It’s insane.”

Phillips said he was falsely accused of being an Israeli or Russian spy, according to the report, and insisted that his claims of massive election fraud are “not wrong.”

“I’m just a guy putting a tweet,” he said. “All social media seems like fake news, especially Twitter.”

A widely-shared Nov. 14 article from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ website Infowars alleged that “more than three million” votes were cast by non-citizens in the 2016 election.

The article was based on tweets Phillips published days earlier asserting the same statistics, as documented by Politifact. Phillips refused to offer additional information about how he arrived at that figure, where he obtained his data or what that data was.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will sign an executive order to move forward with an investigation into alleged widespread voter fraud which he has baselessly claimed cost him the popular vote.

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  1. Welp, don’t lie then.
    If you’re gonna lie then expect push back.
    edit
    Infowars.com is not a good source for information. Anyone should know that

  2. MS GOPer

    You misspelled the headline. It’s MF, not MS

  3. So why should we believe his story about death threats if nothing else he says is true?

  4. I heard…

    That if you hold an aspirin between your knees it will get better …

    I heard …

  5. Death threats in Mississippi over comments about voting?

    Now you know how black Mississippians felt for a hundred years, cracker.

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