DAY 8: Trump blames somebody else for "illegal votes" claim; We thoroughly debunk it

For the third time in less than a week Donald Trump insisted on claiming there were at least 3 million illegal votes in the 2016 election. But this time he blamed that lie on somebody else: on some guy named Gregg Phillips. Apparently as a way to "prove" his claim:

Look forward to seeing final results of VoteStand. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal. We must do better!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 27 de enero de 2017

Trump tweeted that apparently after watching an interview between Andrew Cuomo and Gregg Phillips on CNN, in which Phillips was debunked because he refused to show evidence of the claim of 3 million illegal votes. We'll get to that interview later on in this post. But first lets's see how this whole thing started:

The claim of 3 million illegal votes was debunked by Politifact on November 18, 2016, a week after Gregg Phillips made the claim without providing any evidence to back it up, which is apparently Trump's "source" for his lie. From the November 18 Politifact article: