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2 men are found guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

This combo of images provided by the Kent County, Mich., jail shows Barry Croft Jr., left, and Adam Fox. (Kent County Sheriff's Office via AP)

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, in a plot prosecutors described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists.

The jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer's vacation home.

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