Daniel Harris is 1st Whitmer kidnap suspect to testify: What he said

[marmar]

(Detroit Free Press) After five of his witnesses refused to testify, defendant Daniel Harris took the stand in his own defense Wednesday, telling jurors repeatedly that he "absolutely" did not plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the summer of 2020 when he was a member of the Wolverine Watchmen militia.

Harris also testified about some of the most explosive testimony during trial: that he and a co-defendant built explosives as part of their alleged kidnapping plot.

Harris admitted that he helped build an explosive device and set it off, but played it off as a benign effort, one that involved blowing up a balloon in an oven.

"I was putting BB’s and a little bit of gunpowder into this balloon, and we were going to blow up a stove," Harris testified. "We put it in a stove. We lit the fuse and we ran." ............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/03/31/whitmer-kidnap-plot-suspect-daniel-harris-testimony/7228823001/

[bullimiami]

1. just goofin around with friends. building bombs for fun. didnt do nuthin. golly gee.

[brooklynite]

2. How do witnesses refuse to testify?

[Dr. Strange]

4. I assume that they're the other ones who are also charged.

So I'm guessing they're just pleading the fifth.

[Demsrule86]

5. I found an article that two men refused to testify and they don't have to apparently.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-federal-trial-day-12-march-29-2022/

[gab13by13]

3. Reading the link

it seems to me these guys are going to skate.

[rampartc]

6. "the fbi made me do it"

will convince the trumpists on the jury that this is all a deep state plot to make real 'murkuns look bad.