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2 days ago · The near-collapse of the Whitmer kidnapping prosecution didn't put the spotlight on domestic extremism and political violence but rather the FBI's eagerness to turn the stoned fantasies of ...
1 day ago · Lawmakers are having to deal with a grim new reality amid a steady rise in political violence toward public officials over the past decade, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has experienced this disturbing trend first-hand. In 2020, the FBI arrested and charged more than a dozen people involved in a plot to overthrow the Michigan state ...
6 days ago · Fourteen men in all were charged in the 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer from her summer home in Antrim County’s Elk Rapids. According to trial testimony, the plot involved then moving Whitmer to a...
2 days ago · Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), the target of a 2020 kidnapping plot, condemned the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and decried the act as part of an “alarming, years-long trend” of violence in American politics. “The shooting of former President Trump was a disgusting act of violence that caps off an alarming ...
4 days ago · Whitmer blames the former president for fueling the political hatred that motivated a plot to kidnap and kill her that unfolded in 2020. In the book, Whitmer is critical of reports that refer...
2 days ago · The near-collapse of the Whitmer kidnapping prosecution didn't put the spotlight on domestic extremism and political violence but rather the FBI's eagerness to turn the stoned fantasies of ...
1 day ago · Gretchen Whitmer Says She Thinks About Her Safety 'Everywhere I Go' in Wake of Attempted Kidnapping “Behind all these incidents is rhetoric," Whitmer said. "We have seen calls to hate, harm, or ...
