Accused Whitmer kidnap plotters also discussed attacking Ohio governor, feds say

[marmar]

(Detroit News) FBI agents did not entrap five men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer because the defendants were predisposed to commit the crime and attack other politicians, including Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, federal prosecutors said Monday.

The DeWine connection to a high-profile federal criminal case involving alleged violent extremism has not been previously disclosed and reveals accused plotters discussed a broader, bipartisan attack on politicians from several states. Prosecutors leveled the new allegation in a court filing Monday while fighting what has emerged as a central defense strategy that involves accusing the FBI of entrapment.

The government was responding four weeks after defense lawyers leveled a broad attack on the government case built with help from at least one dozen informants and undercover FBI agents.

In a 22-page filing, prosecutors alleged the accused plotters met near Columbus, Ohio, in June 2020 and discussed attacking Whitmer, a Democrat and DeWine, a Republican, along with a second Democrat, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who was linked to the investigation last fall. .............(more)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/08/09/accused-whitmer-plotters-mulled-attacking-ohio-gov-dewine-feds-say/5544873001/

[gohuskies]

1. Send these bums to Supermax!

These are the worst of the malignant extreme right terrorist Christofascist white supremacists that threaten the nation. They all need to be tried, convicted and locked up till they are too old to commit treason.