The focus of a federal trial in Michigan has shifted directly to the question of whether the FBI hoodwinked four defendants into agreeing to a plot to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
FILE - In an Oct. 8, 2020 file photo, provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich. Opening statements are Wednesday, March 8, 2022, for the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Whitmer. Prosecutors say the men conspired to kidnap the Democratic governor in 2020 because they were angry about COVID-19 restrictions she imposed .GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
But Croft's lawyer said informants secretly recorded the men when they were “stoned, absolutely out-of-your-mind stoned.” He said their drug-addled state led to fantastical ideas, including placing Whitmer on a kite to transport her.Entrapment is a rare, high-risk defense because it's a concession that crimes may have been committed. Lawyers seek acquittals based of claims of excessive influence and manipulation by agents and informants.
“We have the numbers. We have the arms. We have the ammunition ... that we need to just go take our country back,” Fox said in a broadside that didn't mention Whitmer. “Big Dan was the leader,” she told jurors. “How do I shoot out of a vehicle? Yeah, you go ask Big Dan. That’s what Daniel was looking for in the summer of 2020.”
Fox's attorney, too, told jurors that Dan pressured him during visits to a Grand Rapids-area vacuum shop where Fox lived as a “misfit” in the basement.
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