Some see freedom, others danger after none of the four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was convicted at trial.
to the plot. Jurors also heard secretly recorded conversations and read violent social media posts and messages.pulled into an alleged plot they would never have participated in if not for the government and its informants luring them. They painted their clients as wannabes who were frequently high and easily influenced, and one as a former member of the military who wanted to brush up on his firearm training.
The jury could not reach verdicts for Fox, 38, and Croft, 46, which means the government can put them on trial again. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted after the verdict that the “FBI and DOJ need a complete and total cleansing. ... All the rot must be removed and these agencies must be restored.”U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell called for an end to “the hatred and division in this country” and said she was “deeply concerned that today’s decision in the Whitmer kidnapping trial will give people further license to choose violence and threats.