Jury convicts two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer in 2020, in a plot prosecutors described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists. (via MaddowBlog)
The Republican did not change his mind in the years that followed. On the contrary, earlier this month, Trump appeared at a far-right gathering and went further. “[T]his thing they did involving Gretchen Whitmer was fake,” the RepublicanEvidently, a jury disagreed. NBC NewsThe jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr.
If this sounds at all familiar, it’s not your imagination: Fox and Croft were tried once before, but a jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in the spring. Prosecutors tried again, and today they secured a conviction.added that two other men were acquitted and two more pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors.
“You can’t just strap on an AR-15 and body armor and go snatch the governor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler told jurors. “But that wasn’t the defendants’ ultimate goal,” Kessler added. “They wanted to set off a second American civil war, a second American Revolution, something that they call the boogaloo. And they wanted to do it for a long time before they settled on Gov. Whitmer.”
As for the former president, those waiting for Trump to revisit his recent comments about the plot being “fake” will probably be waiting for a very long time.
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