Jurors soon will hear from a pivotal informant who approached the FBI about a band of antigovernment extremists in Michigan
in 2020 into a plot to kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home because of restrictions she imposed during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It won't be the first time that Dan has testified about his work for the FBI. In 2021, he appeared in state court in a separate but related case involvingWearing a recording device, Dan talked to Fox, who is described as a leader of the plot,"nearly every day” for about four months until the FBI made arrests in October 2020, defense attorney Christopher Gibbons said in a February court filing.
"We want her flex-cuffed on a table while we all pose and get our pictures taken like we just made the biggest drug bust in ... history,"“You give us that, we’ll be happy,” he said. “Then you lock her ... up, even if we gotta go with her.” Defense lawyers claim informants and agents improperly influenced the men. Schweers acknowledged that he paid for meals and provided rides for Fox, who promised to make him “warden of the north,” a reference to a “Game of Thrones” character.over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn right-wing extremists like those charged in the case. She has said Trump was complicit in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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