Prosecutors have rested their case against two men on trial for a second time in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
The jury heard seven days of testimony before prosecutors finished Thursday in federal court in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The defence argues that Fox and Croft were entrapped by agents and informants who fed their wild anti-government views.An FBI agent who was working undercover told jurors Thursday about a stop at a bridge near Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's vacation home during a night ride by anti-government extremists to continue planning a kidnapping.
Bates said he pitched himself to the group as someone who could get explosives. By fall 2020, he said there was talk about buying bomb components, and the FBI wanted to stay on top of it. Another agent as well as informants already had infiltrated the group. "I can't speak to how all of them functioned," Bates replied, "but I believe a recorder was on the entire time."
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