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A senior Trump administration tasked with managing America\u2019s disaster response won\u2019t stop talking about teleporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Gregg Phillips, who leads FEMA\u2019s Office of Response and Recovery, first made claims<\/a> about teleportation on a podcast, describing the feeling of his car being \u201clifted up\u201d and relocated into a ditch near a church. In another instance, Phillips described finding himself teleported to a Waffle House miles away from his previous location.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Trump administration named Phillips, best known for profiting from election conspiracy theories<\/a>, to one of the top roles at the disaster relief agency in December. \u201cTeleporting is no fun. \u2026 It was scary in a way,\u201d Phillips said on an episode of the podcast Onward<\/em>, which aired prior to his appointment to the federal government. At the time, Phillips said he didn\u2019t know if the experience was \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cevil.\u201d<\/p>\n After CNN reported on Phillips\u2019s strange claims last month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency official has taken to social media to defend<\/a> his experiences and contextualize them in religious terms. In a Truth Social post<\/a>, Phillips said that God moved him instantaneously \u201cduring a spiritual battle.\u201d Phillips likened his experience to miracles described in the Bible, including the resurrection of Jesus, celebrated on Easter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cPeople can debate me. Question me. Even ridicule what they don\u2019t understand,\u201d Phillips wrote. In one Truth Social reply<\/a>, Phillips accused the media of taking his quotes out of context, describing the experiences as a spiritual journey linked to his battle with cancer and attributing the teleportation to \u201cthe power of God.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n