Waffle House Teleporter Gregg Phillips Is Still on the Trump Administration’s Payroll
Waffle House Teleporter Gregg Phillips Is Still on the Trump Administration’s Payroll
“华夫饼屋传送者”格雷格·菲利普斯仍在特朗普政府的工资单上
Gregg Phillips, an election denier who once claimed he teleported to a Waffle House, says he is still working in the Trump administration, after he was reportedly removed from his influential role overseeing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) emergency response efforts in June.
格雷格·菲利普斯（Gregg Phillips）是一位否认选举结果的人士，他曾声称自己通过“传送”到达了一家华夫饼屋（Waffle House）。据报道，他于今年6月被免去了负责监督联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）应急响应工作的关键职务，但他本人表示目前仍在特朗普政府任职。
While it remains unclear what Phillips has been working on in the administration since stepping away as head of the Office of Response and Recovery, on Sunday he wrote on Truth Social, “I have been in the admin since last year. I’ll be leaving soon to rejoin the fight.”
虽然自菲利普斯卸任响应与恢复办公室（Office of Response and Recovery）负责人以来，他在政府中具体负责什么工作尚不清楚，但他周日在“真实社交”（Truth Social）上写道：“我从去年开始就在政府任职。我很快就会离开，重新加入战斗。”
One day later, he was pictured at a Department of Justice building alongside Ed Martin, the former US pardon attorney who President Donald Trump last week announced would be departing the administration to “fight legal battles for the upcoming midterm election.”
一天后，有人拍到他与埃德·马丁（Ed Martin）出现在司法部大楼。马丁是美国前特赦律师，唐纳德·特朗普总统上周宣布他将离开政府，去“为即将到来的中期选举进行法律斗争”。
“Enjoyed the visit with our friend Ed Martin today in DC,” Phillips wrote on Truth Social. “Haters are gonna hate this.”
“今天在华盛顿与我们的朋友埃德·马丁会面很愉快，”菲利普斯在“真实社交”上写道，“讨厌我的人肯定会对此感到不爽。”
Martin and the Department of Justice did not respond to WIRED’s requests for comment about Phillips’ role in the administration. Phillips declined to comment.
马丁和司法部没有回应《连线》（WIRED）关于菲利普斯在政府中角色的置评请求。菲利普斯拒绝置评。
A FEMA spokesperson directed WIRED to a statement it issued in June saying Phillips was “taking leave for personal reasons.” When asked if Phillips was still employed by the agency and still on leave, the agency didn’t respond.
FEMA的一位发言人向《连线》指出了该机构6月份发布的一份声明，称菲利普斯“因个人原因休假”。当被问及菲利普斯是否仍受雇于该机构且处于休假状态时，该机构未予回应。
Phillips is on administrative leave, according to the White House, which also confirmed that Martin is still working in the administration until September 4. Federal employees on administrative leave are entitled to full pay and benefits.
据白宫称，菲利普斯目前处于行政休假状态。白宫还证实，马丁在9月4日之前仍在该政府任职。处于行政休假期间的联邦雇员有权获得全额工资和福利。
Phillips has long promoted baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud, claiming in 2016 that more than 3 million noncitizens voted in the presidential election, robbing Trump of winning the popular vote. Days after taking office in 2017, Trump promoted Phillips’ false claims. In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, Phillips gained further notoriety when the group he was involved with, True the Vote, provided the data that underpinned the debunked film 2000 Mules, which falsely alleged that a network of individuals was paid to illegally collect and deposit ballots in drop boxes.
菲利普斯长期以来一直宣扬关于大规模选民欺诈的毫无根据的指控。他曾在2016年声称，超过300万非公民在总统选举中投票，导致特朗普未能赢得普选票。2017年上任几天后，特朗普就曾宣传过菲利普斯的这些虚假主张。在2020年总统大选后，菲利普斯因其参与的组织“为投票正名”（True the Vote）提供了被证伪的电影《2000只骡子》（2000 Mules）的数据而声名狼藉。该片虚假地声称，一个由个人组成的网络被雇佣来非法收集选票并投入投票箱。
A 2022 investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting found that True the Vote has raised millions of dollars from donors by repeatedly promising to uncover evidence of election fraud but has failed to do so. Much of that money, CIR reported, went to companies controlled by Phillips and in loans to True the Vote’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht.
调查报道中心（CIR）2022年的一项调查发现，“为投票正名”组织通过反复承诺揭露选举欺诈证据，从捐赠者那里筹集了数百万美元，但从未兑现。据CIR报道，这些资金中的大部分流向了由菲利普斯控制的公司，以及作为贷款提供给了该组织的创始人凯瑟琳·恩格尔布雷希特（Catherine Engelbrecht）。
Phillips was appointed last December to head up FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery despite having no past experience working in emergency response. In June, following his departure, the agency thanked Phillips for his “service, dedication, and leadership,” adding that “he has played a pivotal role in stabilizing the Office of Response and Recovery and advancing key reforms to strengthen our mission delivery.”
去年12月，尽管没有任何应急响应工作经验，菲利普斯仍被任命为FEMA响应与恢复办公室的负责人。今年6月，在他离职后，该机构感谢了菲利普斯的“服务、奉献和领导力”，并补充说“他在稳定响应与恢复办公室以及推进加强我们使命交付的关键改革方面发挥了关键作用”。
Three sources at FEMA, who were granted anonymity due to fears of recrimination by the administration, tell WIRED that Phillips has not been seen at FEMA’s headquarters since June.
三名FEMA的消息人士因担心遭到政府报复而要求匿名，他们告诉《连线》，自6月以来，菲利普斯就再也没有在FEMA总部出现过。
When Phillips posted on Truth Social this week about his decision to “rejoin the fight” he was once again discussing “illegals on the voter rolls” and the work he and Engelbrecht had done almost a decade ago to address the perceived issue—which is so rare that even a third-party analysis of a database maintained by the right-wing Heritage Foundation shows it contains fewer than 100 examples.
当菲利普斯本周在“真实社交”上发布关于他决定“重新加入战斗”的消息时，他再次讨论了“选民名单上的非法移民”问题，以及他和恩格尔布雷希特近十年前为解决这一所谓问题所做的工作——而这个问题非常罕见，甚至连右翼传统基金会（Heritage Foundation）维护的数据库的第三方分析都显示，其中包含的案例不到100个。
When asked if Phillips’ comment meant he would be working with True the Vote again, Engelbrecht said, “I’m sure Gregg will be involved in a number of projects in the future, and we at TTV think very highly of him, but in an effort to set the record straight, he is not part of the True the Vote team. He previously assisted TTV as a contractor on research projects from 2020–2023.”
当被问及菲利普斯的评论是否意味着他将再次与“为投票正名”合作时，恩格尔布雷希特表示：“我相信格雷格未来会参与许多项目，我们TTV非常看重他，但为了澄清事实，他并不是‘为投票正名’团队的一员。他此前曾作为承包商在2020年至2023年期间协助TTV进行研究项目。”
When asked about Phillips’ role as a board member of True the Vote, as revealed by the CIR report, Engelbrecht did not respond.
当被问及CIR报告中披露的菲利普斯作为“为投票正名”董事会成员的角色时，恩格尔布雷希特没有回应。
WIRED recently revealed that ahead of the midterms, True the Vote will release another documentary, entitled Trapped, which again makes allegations about widespread and systemic voter fraud.
《连线》最近披露，在期中选举前，“为投票正名”将发布另一部名为《被困》（Trapped）的纪录片，该片再次对广泛且系统的选民欺诈提出了指控。