Overview
- CNN’s KFile on March 20 detailed Gregg Phillips’s podcast accounts of involuntary “teleportation,” including to a Waffle House about 50 miles away and to a ditch near a church after his truck was reportedly lifted.
- Phillips was appointed in December to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, a critical post overseeing federal disaster response operations and large sums of aid.
- The compilation also shows Phillips promoting election-fraud narratives and using violent rhetoric, including a 2025 remark that Joe Biden “deserves to die.”
- A FEMA spokesperson dismissed the coverage as “so silly,” arguing the cited remarks were personal, taken out of context, and made while he was “barely surviving cancer.”
- Phillips is set to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee next week, where lawmakers may press him on his statements, background, and fitness for the role.