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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly

Gretchen Whitmer wants to meet far-right plotters who tried to kill her, book reveals

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Gretchen Whitmer at a conference in Maryland last year. Federal charges were filed against six more men, four of whom were convicted. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan widely spoken of as a possible Democratic candidate for president should Joe Biden cede to growing pressure and leave the race, wants to meet members of a far-right militia who plotted to kidnap and kill her.

“I asked whether I could meet with one of the handful of plotters who’d pleaded guilty and taken responsibility for their actions, just to talk,” Whitmer writes in a new book, of the plot motivated by resistance to Covid public health measures and revealed with 13 arrests in late 2020.

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