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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Three years after plot to kidnap Michigan’s Gov Gretchen Whitmer failed, final defendants go on trial

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The world had shut down, and they were angry.

In 2020, a group of men surveilled Michigian Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s vacation home in Elk Rapids, Michigan, watching and plotting. To them, she was the embodiment of what they viewed as the government’s overreach to Covid-19, using her state mandates to bring their lives — and businesses — to a halt.

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