Posted on Mar 10, 2022
How Trump targeted ‘that woman’ Gretchen Whitmer over kidnap plot
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Hours before the FBI revealed an alleged kidnap plot against Gretchen Whitmer, Donald Trump railed against the Michigan governor as the Covid "lockup queen".
Within weeks, his supporters were chanting "lock her up" as the then-president used the threat against her life to rally support in the key swing state during the final days of the 2020 election.
The trial against four militia members, which began this week, heard that the so-called “Wolverine Watchmen” were "sent overboard" by Covid and the "tyrant" governor’s mask mandates and lockdowns.
Within weeks, his supporters were chanting "lock her up" as the then-president used the threat against her life to rally support in the key swing state during the final days of the 2020 election.
The trial against four militia members, which began this week, heard that the so-called “Wolverine Watchmen” were "sent overboard" by Covid and the "tyrant" governor’s mask mandates and lockdowns.
How Trump targeted ‘that woman’ Gretchen Whitmer over kidnap plot
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The FBI announced their arrest on 8 October 2020, the same day that Trump appeared on Fox News to stoke anger against her coronavirus policies.
“I won Michigan, which hadn’t been won in decades and decades … and we should win it again because I brought so much business there because she’s the lockup queen," Mr Trump said.
“What she’s done to that place is horrible. She’s locked it up. She’s got people like living in prison. The courts just overturned her. They said what you’re doing is unconstitutional,” he added.
But rather than tamp down his rhetoric in light of the suspected domestic terror threat, MR Trump ramped up his attacks on "that woman from Michigan" as he campaigned to hold onto the state he flipped to Republican for the first time since 1988.
Ms Whitmer, for her part, blamed Mr Trump for "giving comfort" to white supremacists and hate groups as she spoke in the hours after the allegedly foiled kidnap plot.
“Just last week the president of the United States stood before the American people and refused to condemn white supremacists and hate groups like these two Michigan militia groups," she said.
"Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry, a call to action."
The then-president didn’t take kindly to the allusion and jumped onto a call with Sean Hannity to lament Ms Whitmer for complaining when his Justice Department "arrested the people that she was complaining about"."...
..."The FBI announced their arrest on 8 October 2020, the same day that Trump appeared on Fox News to stoke anger against her coronavirus policies.
“I won Michigan, which hadn’t been won in decades and decades … and we should win it again because I brought so much business there because she’s the lockup queen," Mr Trump said.
“What she’s done to that place is horrible. She’s locked it up. She’s got people like living in prison. The courts just overturned her. They said what you’re doing is unconstitutional,” he added.
But rather than tamp down his rhetoric in light of the suspected domestic terror threat, MR Trump ramped up his attacks on "that woman from Michigan" as he campaigned to hold onto the state he flipped to Republican for the first time since 1988.
Ms Whitmer, for her part, blamed Mr Trump for "giving comfort" to white supremacists and hate groups as she spoke in the hours after the allegedly foiled kidnap plot.
“Just last week the president of the United States stood before the American people and refused to condemn white supremacists and hate groups like these two Michigan militia groups," she said.
"Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry, a call to action."
The then-president didn’t take kindly to the allusion and jumped onto a call with Sean Hannity to lament Ms Whitmer for complaining when his Justice Department "arrested the people that she was complaining about"."...
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More FBI informants were involved than actual members of the underground group.
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LTC David Brown
SP5 Dennis Loberger - 5 members of the Wolverines are accused in the kidnap plot, 1 pleaded guilty. There appears to be 12 FBI informants. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicagarrison/fbi-informants-in-michigan-kidnap-plot
The FBI Allegedly Used At Least 12 Informants In The Michigan Kidnapping Case
Defense attorneys said they will argue that the FBI “induced or persuaded” the defendants to go along with the violent scheme.
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SrA John Monette
The informants were probably members of the group who decided to save their own skins.
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