The attorneys of four men charged with attempting to kidnap Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer claim that the FBI informants entrapped the men. They supplied their clients with drugs and then planned the kidnapping for them.
The attorneys say informants rented hotel rooms, supplied food, liquor, and food to the four men. Attorneys say they did it to convince the men to take part in the plot.
Entrapment is illegal and the FBI might have gone over the line.
The defendants did make damaging remarks about Whitmer during the meetings but denied they were agreeing to kidnap Governor Whitmer.
According to their defense lawyers, the FBI arranged everything, from planning to recon to supplying weapons.
The prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Roth acknowledged the roles of the informants but said that giving these men the opportunity to commit a crime does not constitute entrapment.
The informants rented the hotel room and fueled the men with free alcohol, drugs, and food. At least one of the would-be kidnappers was homeless.
Adam Fox, an accused ringleader of a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, posted online about being ready for a second Civil War. It was months before first meeting federal informants, an FBI agent testified Thursday. He wanted to squelch the idea that they were not predisposed to commit the crime.
Social media posts are now used to convict people.
THE SECRET RECORDINGS DURING A DRUG-FUELED RAGE
Secret recordings appear very damning:
Jurors heard dramatic, secret recordings of another accused ringleader, Delaware trucker Barry Croft, 46. He talked about attacking Whitmer and killing her bodyguards. This was to take place during a coordinated attack at her Northern Michigan cottage. It would involve destroying the communications tower and firing artillery.
“There’s a tornado spinning through the community and — wham! — a quick precise grab of that f—— governor,” Croft said in a June 2020 conversation recorded by an FBI informant.
“Here’s the thing about a precise group of seven men prepared for the job, with snipers shooting at heat signatures, dropping f—— armed guards before we approach the house,”Croft added. “All that’s left breathing is her.”
Croft’s attorney Joshua Blanchard said that one FBI informant routinely plied men with marijuana before switching on his recording device. It was a “selectively recording” of the men after getting them “worked up.”
THE MISFITS
Attorney Christopher Gibbons described his client, Adam Fox, as a “misfit” whose behavior is “understandable why it would raise suspicions.” But, Gibbons insisted, Fox did not agree to any conspiracy and, instead, he was used by an FBI informant who was receiving “envelopes of cash” to keep the investigation into the defendants going.
Fox was duped by federal “parlor tricks,” Gibbons said.
The crime was never carried out.
REMEMBER THE FIRST PROTEST
It is an interesting defense because the Governor and her Democrat machine wanted to destroy the militias and protesters who went to the Michigan Capitol building armed. The protest was peaceful but the protesters barged into the building.
Michigan allows open carry.
The protesters were upset about her Draconian lockdown orders.
Officials hunted for militia members to put on trial and then they found them.
At least one of the accused would-be kidnappers has Antifa leanings. But he loves all people and hates Trump. At the time, the media claimed they were Trump supporters.
More on the ideology of one of the men who was busted by the FBI for a plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In this video he poses in front of an anarchist flag to tell people that the Declaration of Independence is an anarchist document. Brandon Caserta is an anarchist. pic.twitter.com/7PgQkYrNIQ
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 8, 2020
Then there is this ringleader with a strange ideology:
I was able to get video of another men arrested in the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. This guy, Pete Musico, says races shouldn’t be fighting each other, we’re all the same, government is the real enemy and he attacks police just like Brandon Caserta. Similar ideology. pic.twitter.com/eRQ77p4NMl
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 8, 2020
It makes one wonder.
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Does anyone even know why the FBI got involved in the first place? They got involved because informants of the Michigan Miltia came to them and said there was talk of militia members entering Michigan State Police departments and opening fire. That is where this all began that is within reason to believe based on the post on social media some of these guys made about cops. Did they plot to kidnap Witmer? I have no idea but I wouldn’t put it past the fbi two entice them into the idea. The point is we clearly know that wasn’t the beginning of how this whole investigation started. It somehow morphed into that with the question being do you believe the men came up with the idea or the FBI came up with the idea?
Don’t forget “false flags”,that’s their specialty. CORRUPT TO THE CORE.
FBI makes the Stasi look like the Boy Scouts of America (or whatever they’re called in our new, Woke world). They’ve gone from enforcers of law to persecutors of patriots. If you love the Constitution, watch out for them…they hate you most of all.
The FBI is now in the Business of Thought Crimes. But Worse, they plant and nurture the Thought Crime into a “conspiracy” to commit crime. I’ve never bought into the idea of conspiracy unless the crime was actually committed. Talk is just Talk until there is action! Buying supplies and planning don’t count. Execution of the plan becomes the crime. Otherwise the FBI can say that buying ammunition for hunting season was a crime if you say, “Someone should shoot the Son of a Bitch”. Until you point the loaded gun at the Son of Bitch, a crime really hasn’t been committed. Though down her in the South pointing a gun at someone will get you shot.
When is the DoJ and FBI going to start arresting Governors and Mayor for Illegal Lock Downs, Mask Mandates, and forcing people to take a defective experimental medication? The Covid Hoax was all lies and I don’t see them building cases against the Bureaucrats and Politicians responsible. The first thing the new Congress must do is to defund and disband the DoJ and FBI. Both are a danger to Freedom in America! They need to be replaced by an Agency that has respect for the Letter of the Constitution. There are too many Harvard trained Lawyers in Government who think pushing the envelope of the Constitution by Government is noble. Most People just want Government to leave them alone, but Liberals are hell bent on telling people what to do.
If just one Law Enforcement Individual or “operative” is present or involved in the planning, then in my book it’s entrapment. The likelihood of people doing things like this are very, very small and would likely fall apart without Law Enforcement encouragement and money. It’s Law Enforcement activities like this that turn people against the Police and Government.
The reason this was just talk and entrapment created by the FBI is how elaborate it was. If anyone of these people were really crazy enough to “get rid of a Governor”, they would have taken out the Governor instead of come up with a movie plot idea of taking out all the Body Guards and kidnapping her. What this really sounds like is an overreaction by Law Enforcement who knew the Mandates they were enforcing were unconstitutional and were afraid The People were going to come after them. The logical move would be to take out the King, not the Pawns, and let the King still standing to fight another day is just plan dumb. Almost none of this case makes sense! The Fact that it made it’s way into a Court when it appears everyone involved could have just been arrested and jailed on Federal Drug Charges makes this case totally suspect! This was FBI Theater, not Law Enforcement or protecting the public.
One other Issue I have is Plea Deals. If the Government needs to have a plea deal with someone who was arrested as part of a conspiracy, all I see is a really shaky government case. Plea Deals are buying questionable testimony that only predigests a case. The Federal Government seems to need a lot of Plea Deals to get convictions. If you are facing Jail Time, lying under oath is just too easy. If there is Plea Deal testimony, I won’t convict someone. You convict everyone involved on the evidence or in my book you don’t have a case.
What I really love is the Judge telling perspective Jurors to put aside Political Bias. That Basically says if you agree with the Governor’s illegal Lock downs you can be on the Jury, but if you were against Illegal Mandates you can’t. So much for a Jury of your peers. I would feel much better with a jury chosen by lottery. This is already a Political Trial and I just hope the jurors see through the Government’s Illegal activities.
One Final thought. Why is the FBI involved in a Kidnapping case if the actual Kidnapping doesn’t cross state lines. Why wasn’t this handled by the State Police? Just way too many Questions about Federal Government overreach here.
The rule of law was deleted by the historic pen and phone and alphabet soup agencies operated outside of white male capitalist pig constructs of the rule of law since 1947.
O/T-Interesting takes during late night power surf!
One says Russia must move quickly because they don’t have enough military aged males.
A From Rome page says he will cancel Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, during the two minutes hate against Russia.
A hospital in Germany is denying any Russians from health care.
The globalists have only the WWIII card left to play in this final divide and conquer.