Posted on 08/23/2022 11:00:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
Adam Fox, (l.), and Barry Croft, (r.), must stand trial again in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Kent County Jail, Delaware Department of Justice
A Michigan jury found two men guilty of conspiring to kidnap the state’s governor on Tuesday.
Barry Croft and Adam Fox were also convicted of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction. Croft was found guilty of an additional explosives charge, according to the Associated Press. On the conspiracy charge alone, the two men face up to life in prison.
The decision is a victory for prosecutors and the FBI, who were left embarrassed in April after a jury deadlocked on charges against Croft and Fox and acquitted two other men of conspiracy charges. Prosecutors pursued the case against Croft and Fox, the alleged masterminds behind an extremist plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and try her for treason over her COVID-19 lockdown policies.
“You can’t just strap on an AR-15 and body armor and go snatch the governor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler, who led the prosecution, told jurors, according to the AP.
“But that wasn’t the defendants’ ultimate goal,” Kessler said. “They wanted to set off a second American civil war, a second American Revolution, something that they call the boogaloo. And they wanted to do it for a long time before they settled on Gov. Whitmer.”
The jury heard recordings of the two men making vulgar and violent comments toward the governor gathered over a seven-month investigation that produced thousands of hours of recordings. The investigation, run by the FBI, also sparked questions over FBI methods and the proper conduct for bureau informants, known officially as confidential human sources.
Croft and Fox were part of separate militia groups, but prosecutors said the two men worked together to make a coordinated plan to kidnap the governor of Michigan. One of the plans involved kidnapping the governor and abandoning her on a boat in the middle of Lake Michigan. In another, prosecutors said the conspirators formulated a plan to blow up a bridge to cut off a police response while a strike team captured the governor from her cottage near Elk Rapids, Michigan.
The defendants’ attorneys, rather than deny their clients made the statements, argued that the comments were part of a pattern of both men to engage in tough talk, but Croft and Fox never intended to carry out the assault. The defendants’ attorneys also blamed their clients heavy use of marijuana, in part facilitated by FBI informants, on their extreme statements.
“Adam Fox was never predisposed to the crime of kidnapping Gov. Whitmer. He talked a big game, but talk is just talk,” Fox’s attorney, Christopher Gibbons, told the jury during closing remarks on Monday.
Croft’s attorney, Joshua Blanchard, also accused the FBI of entrapment.
“You don’t have to agree with Barry’s politics — I certainly don’t. But we should all agree that the principles of truth and justice are the foundation that our country was built upon,” Blanchard said. “The FBI has told us that the truth doesn’t matter to them … you have the power to put a stop to that today … you can tell the government that half-truths are not enough.”
were these two of the feds that tried to pull of this op?
The judge gave special instructions to the jurors last Friday to steer them to this verdict.
These defendants used drugs by their own admission and in essence said the FBI operatives got them high-drunk to say what is said to have incriminated them in a “plot”
These two guys not convicted in the first trial with two others acquitted found not guilty.
Like I said the judge steered the jury last Friday with some special instructions to make sure the feds keep up their 98 percent conviction rate on rigged and or exaggerated charges.
I thought the RE-trial of these guys just kicked off yesterday?
If this wasn’t the feds then we have a banana republic verified.
Total rat setup. The rat judge disallowed all of the entrapment evidence. Any appeal will take place after the Governor election in November.
We are living in interesting times now.
They are guilty of being white extremist deplorable trash. The federal case for kidnapping is irrelevant. I would post a sarcasm tag but this is too real.
Going deep cover in the pen?
2 out of 18... 12 of which were FIBs, hell of an average they got there
The Judge screwed their defense.
It sounds like the judge disallowed a defense.
And most of the “defense” attorneys in the J6 cases act like members of the prosecution’s team.
Poso has been discussing this all afternoon on Charlie Kirk’s show (he’s substitute host).
Anyone interested - go to Rumble search “Charlie Kirk” and listen to the first & second hours of today’s 3-hour show.
Will be thrown out on appeal.................
The Whitmer crime family will get too happy, complacent and unrestrained. Watch for more typical overreach, as they’ll think they’ve got it made.
Is it still not I don’t believe a single thing here? The groundwork has been laid to imprison or murder anyone opposing the swamp.
and the fbi guy in charge got promoted
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