DETROIT — A ringleader of an alleged plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer fantasized about hog-tying her and displaying her body on a table, according to federal prosecutors.
The new allegation, along with explicit talk about executing Whitmer's bodyguards and taking hostages in a "wartime" attack, emerged in a court filing as prosecutors tried to rebut a defense claim that five men accused in the kidnap plot were entrapped by FBI informants and undercover agents.
While opposing a defense request to dismiss the criminal case, prosecutors revealed new details and what they portrayed as incriminating statements by some of the accused plotters that show they eagerly and voluntarily joined the plot.
