DETROIT — Six men plotted to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in federal court.

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I wonder if Trump has signed their pardons yet.

Just following advice given by ....

Michigan's Attorney General just SLAMMED Trump's pandering to white supremacy after white domestic terrorists plotted to KIDNAP the states Governor. This is the most flaming response ever!

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Former FBI Director Calls Trump 'Person Most Responsible' For Michigan Governor Kidnapping Plot
Collin Gossel

On Thursday, October 8, federal prosecutors revealed in a press conference that they had uncovered a plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The FBI arrested six suspects who allegedly held multiple secret meetings, staked out the Michigan capitol building in Lansing, performed recognizance on the Governor's vacation home, and bought firearms for their scheme, all while preparing to "snatch" the Governor and put her on "trial" for treason.

Seven additional men were arrested on state charges and are suspected of tracking down the addresses of law enforcement officers and threatening to "instigate a civil war."

Following the FBI's announcement, former FBI Director Andrew McCabe connected the crime directly to President Donald Trump's dangerous rhetoric.

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I don't know if Trump can be held entirely to blame for this upsweep in right wing terrorism. Obama's namby pamby "aw shucks they're just good ole boys having themselves a time" approach to the Bundy stand-offs with no real consequences certainly played a part in these guys thinking they could get away with anything.

his tendency to reach across the aisle, even to a pit of vipers, was unwelcome.

Well this makes the perfect defense for entrapment. "I would not have committed a crime, but I was lured int it by the government."

Defendant in Plot to Kidnap Michigan Governor Is Sentenced to Six Years
Ty G. Garbin, 25, had pleaded guilty to taking part in an extremist plot driven by anger at the governor’s efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Neil MacFarquhar

The only defendant to plead guilty to taking part in a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan was sentenced on Wednesday to six years and three months in prison.

Ty G. Garbin, 25, an airplane mechanic, was the first defendant to be sentenced for what prosecutors have described as an extremist plot driven by anger at the governor’s efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The 14 men arrested in October face charges in federal and state courts in one of the most significant domestic terrorism plots ever to come to trial in the United States. The defendants, many of them members of an antigovernment paramilitary group in Michigan called the Wolverine Watchmen, coalesced around protests against Covid-19 lockdown measures.

After initially weighing storming the State Capitol in Lansing, they decided to abduct Governor Whitmer from her vacation home, according to prosecutors. Their efforts were seen as a precursor to the violence unleashed at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Mr. Garbin cooperated extensively with the prosecutors, who called his “wide-ranging insider’s view” a significant contribution to the case. Among other issues, he testified about plans to deploy a homemade explosive device as well as other illegal weapons. His testimony resulted in added federal charges being brought against three of the men in April. The extent of Mr. Garbin’s cooperation led officials to ...

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Two Men Convicted in Plot to Kidnap Michigan’s Governor
The trial came months after a different federal jury did not return any convictions in the case, one of the country’s highest-profile domestic terror prosecutions.
Mitch Smith

A federal jury in Michigan found two men guilty on Tuesday of plotting to kidnap the state’s Democratic governor, ending one of the highest-profile domestic terrorism cases in recent history and providing a measure of vindication to prosecutors who brought the case to trial a second time after a previous jury declined to convict.

Prosecutors presented the men, Barry Croft and Adam Fox, who face up to life in prison, as threats to democracy who planned to capture Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home in 2020, detonate explosives to disrupt the police response and perhaps touch off a civil war in the process.

“You can’t just strap on an AR-15 and body armor and snatch the governor,” Nils Kessler, a federal prosecutor, said during closing arguments.

Proving the case meant persuading jurors to trust a sprawling F.B.I. investigation that embedded several federal operatives around the group. Among them were an informant who became second-in-command of a militia and an undercover agent who offered to provide explosives. Earlier this year, another jury failed to reach verdicts for Mr. Croft and Mr. Fox, and acquitted two of their co-defendants.

“In America, the F.B.I. is not supposed to ....

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