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.
