Attorneys Blame Plot to Kidnap Gov. Whitmer on Trump's Rhetoric
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested six men in Michigan for allegedly plotting to kidnap the state’s Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation home before next month’s presidential election. Many in the legal community immediately pointed to President Donald Trump’s rhetoric towards Whitmer as at least contributing to alleged kidnapping plot.
According to an FBI affidavit unsealed Thursday, Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta formed a militia group in the summer of 2020 and began plotting how to overthrow state governments they believed were violating the U.S. Constitution. The affidavit, which is a disturbing and detailed account, does not have mention the president or anything the president has said, but does say the defendants wanted to put Whitmer on trial for “treason”—a word Trump often uses against his political enemies.
During a June phone conversation with a Confidential Human Source that was recorded, Fox said he needed “200 men” to “storm the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, and take hostages, including the Governor” as part of a plot to “try the Governor of Michigan for ‘treason,’” according to the indictment.
University of Texas law professor Bobby Chesney referred to the men as “terrorists,” calling the foiled plot a “system-blinking-red-moment
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