DETROIT — Adam Fox, an accused ringleader of a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, posted online about being ready for a second Civil War months before first meeting federal informants, an FBI agent testified Thursday.
Early testimony from FBI Special Agent Todd Reineck appeared designed to blunt defense arguments that members of the alleged plot were not predisposed to commit the crime. Defense lawyers have argued in pretrial filings that informants and federal agents orchestrated the scheme to kidnap the governor and entrapped four men standing trial in federal court in Grand Rapids.
Reineck testified during the third day of the kidnapping conspiracy trial as jurors were shown a series of videos featuring Fox and others railing about the government, criticizing COVID-19 restrictions imposed during the first few months of the pandemic and vowing violent action.
