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FBI fires lead agent in Gov. Whitmer Kidnapping case ... FBI fires agent who lead the investigation into the attempted kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
https://justthenews.com ^ | September 13, 2021 - 7:59pm | Colton Salaz

Posted on 09/14/2021 5:23:03 AM PDT by Red Badger

The FBI agent credited with thwarting the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been fired from the agency after domestic violence allegations were levied against him.

According to The Detroit News, Special Agent Richard Trask was fired last week while awaiting trial on charges of assault with intent to do bodily harm and allegations that he beat his wife’s head against a nightstand following an argument caused by a swingers party they attended.

The firing of the law enforcement officer comes amid questions concerning potential misconduct by the FBI during the kidnapping investigation, and whether as many as 12 informants were driving the alleged conspiracy.

Trask was dropped as a witness for the FBI following comments he made on social media calling former President Donald Trump a “douchebag” and a “piece of s---.”

The arrest and subsequent firing come as defense lawyers representing the accused attempted kidnappers began planning their legal strategy, which includes attacking the credibility of the FBI agents involved in the case. The defense team also plans on alleging the FBI informants, including Trask, entrapped the defendants.

The trial will not be conducted until December at the earliest, and the defense team may still attempt to call Trask as a witness despite the FBI dismissing him for the prosecution.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: abduction; assault; corruption; crooks; democrats; detroit; domesticviolence; fbi; gestapogretchen; gretchenwhitmer; informants; kidnapping; kidnappingplot; leftists; michigan; nevertrumpters; richardtrask; swinger; swingers; swingersparty; trash; whither; wifebeating
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1 posted on 09/14/2021 5:23:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

“....beat his wife’s head against a nightstand following an argument caused by a swingers party they attended.”

FIB must have been investigating the pineapple crowd.


2 posted on 09/14/2021 5:28:38 AM PDT by CTyank
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To: Red Badger

led vs. lead...

it is a pet peeve of mind.


3 posted on 09/14/2021 5:29:12 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: Red Badger
a swingers party they attended

. . . Why?

4 posted on 09/14/2021 5:31:18 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Red Badger

Nice to see how fine and upstanding our FBI is.


5 posted on 09/14/2021 5:31:18 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Red Badger

I’m always suspect when a fbi agent gets fired.
Especially considering all the crazy stuff they do.
False flag events and dramatic arrest of perceived political enemies and the like.


6 posted on 09/14/2021 5:33:26 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden)
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To: CTyank
"...following an argument caused by a swingers party they attended..."

Not very open minded of them. Most arguments have at their root, a fundamental disagreement over who is right and who is wrong about something. I would think those that attend a swinger's party have pretty much sworn off any objective measure of right or wrong.

7 posted on 09/14/2021 5:34:10 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: neverevergiveup

Yep,many of them are scum
..so why pick on this guy?


8 posted on 09/14/2021 5:35:05 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden)
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To: Red Badger; LS; Liz; SunkenCiv; Kaslin; BenLurkin; SJackson

So, Biden-Harris-Garland-Plosive-Schumer-Obama’s FBI promotes and retains the guy who ran apolitically-needed sting operation against self-called “white supremacists” who supposedly were going to kidnap a democrat woman governor in an election year with more agents provocateurs and informants than conspirators ....
But fire him only after attending a wife-swapping party and beating his wife.


9 posted on 09/14/2021 5:35:18 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Red Badger

Just the news is reporting this and not NBC, CBS, ABC, Reuters, AP, etc. Says a lot about our corrupt media.


10 posted on 09/14/2021 5:36:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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FiB is GiB...castrated, now controlled by globalists

Better watch your six America, it's about to get real ugly.

11 posted on 09/14/2021 5:39:21 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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According to The Detroit News, Special Agent Richard Trask was fired last week while awaiting trial on charges of assault with intent to do bodily harm and allegations that he beat his wife’s head against a nightstand following an argument caused by a swingers party they attended.


I know an allegation is not proof, but.....wow.


12 posted on 09/14/2021 5:47:00 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Red Badger

The FBI is FULL OF BAD EVIL DEMOCRAT AGENTS!! TOTALLY CORRUPT AGENCY!


13 posted on 09/14/2021 5:48:13 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: neverevergiveup

Yes, another one of “the brave men and women.....”


14 posted on 09/14/2021 5:51:00 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: Red Badger

Since the fbi agents were the ones who led the effort, it is they who should face the severest of the charges.


15 posted on 09/14/2021 5:54:28 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Ann Archy

B-b-but Sean says........................


16 posted on 09/14/2021 5:54:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
I listen to different podcasts and one is about spies with their latest release being about the FBI informant that went undercover in the Whitmer case. The first 4 sentences are such a crock of BS. They make it sound like one informant was asked to go undercover instead of them stating the truth, 12 of the 18 were FBI.

They do know how to saturate all of the media outlets to frame the false narrative.

17 posted on 09/14/2021 5:57:34 AM PDT by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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To: Red Badger

So, to the rest of the story...if you dig into this.

This guy originally was in the Air Force. He’d cross-trained around the 4th year, and got into AF OSI. Far as I have heard...he spent six years doing that, and got out...apparently getting this FBI hiring (maybe a decade ago).

Just the way that things look, I’d go and ask if they drug-tested the guy.


18 posted on 09/14/2021 5:58:18 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Red Badger

How convenient that this happens shortly after he uncovered their own agents that were in on the plot.


19 posted on 09/14/2021 5:58:37 AM PDT by Durbin
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To: CTyank

“ FIB must have been investigating the pineapple crowd.”

Only if those pineapples are upside down.

L


20 posted on 09/14/2021 5:58:39 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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