Men charged in Michigan governor kidnapping plot wanted to spark civil war

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April 1(Reuters) - The four men accused ofconspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer went far beyond just idle talk and were plotting an attack they hoped would spark a second American civil war, a prosecutor said in closing arguments on Friday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler described the four defendants as being "paranoid" and "filled with rage" as they planned to abduct Whitmer, who they blamed for imposing curbs on social and business activities during the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...ap-michigan-governor-soon-go-jury-2022-04-01/
 
Trial in Alleged Plot to Kidnap Michigan’s Governor Nears End

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The government’s accusations were jarring: Several men with militia ties had schemed to abduct Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan at her vacation home. The group, prosecutors and witnesses said, had held a series of “field training exercises” and discussed killing or stranding her in a boat in the middle of Lake Michigan.

As the trial of four men unfolded over the last month, federal prosecutors presented a barrage of alarming messages and surreptitious recordings that they said revealed the group’s plan to storm Ms. Whitmer’s home, eliminate her security detail and detonate a bridge to slow any police response to the kidnapping.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/us/whitmer-plot-trial-closing.html
 
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