As ProPublica previously reported:
Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht are best known as the election deniers behind True the Vote, a Texas-based nonprofit responsible for amplifying conspiracies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
True the Vote founder hopes “we will see some level of compensation” from Trump's weaponization fund
Catherine Engelbrecht: “If only a thank you, that would be far more than what we’ve gotten today. Then certainly if we could find a way to have legal bills or those types of things considered, in all of this, that would be great too.”
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From the May 20, 2026, edition of True the Vote's True the Vote Live, streamed on Rumble
CATHERINE ENGELBRECHT (TRUE THE VOTE FOUNDER; HOST): But, lots lots lots to be excited about. And gosh, I just feel like there are, there are just new avenues of hope springing up everywhere you turn. I'll also mention the recent ruling from the court or recent finding in the court for President Trump's case against the IRS where he secured a over $1 billion settlement and then turned around and made that into a weaponization compensation fund of sorts that will go to support those of us.
I would put myself and True the Vote in squarely in that camp who have been targeted, and we have the receipts to show just how deep that targeting ran. And hopefully, we will see some level of compensation. If only a thank you, that would be far more than what we've gotten today. Then certainly if we could find a way to have legal bills or those types of things considered, in all of this, that would be great too because, my gosh, we bear the scars as an organization from the, well from the weaponization, frankly that started for us back in the Obama administration, but certainly ratcheted up under Biden. So, again, lots of great news and none of it would be possible if it were not for the fact that all of you, all of us together, have continued to stay the course and press forward even when the headwinds were at their strongest.