Witness: Whitmer kidnapping aimed at stopping Biden win

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Witness: Whitmer kidnapping aimed at stopping Biden win

By ED WHITE
March 23, 2022

A man who pleaded guilty to planning a kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told jurors Wednesday that he and his allies wanted to attack before the 2020 election to prevent Joe Biden from winning the presidency.

Ty Garbin didn’t say why they thought an abduction that fall would stop Biden from defeating then-President Donald Trump.

“We wanted to cause as much a disruption as possible to prevent Joe Biden from getting into office. It didn’t have to be,” he said of striking before the election. “It was just preferred.”

Garbin, 26, is a critical witness for prosecutors in the trial of four men charged with conspiracy: Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/michigan-gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-4661d87992f261475e974946bcb2fa19


FILE - This file photo provided by the Kent County Sheriff, shows Ty Garbin. Garbin testified Wednesday in the trial in federal court in Grand Rapids, Mich., of four men charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Garbin was one of six men originally charged. He pleaded guilty in January 2021 to conspiracy in the case and was sentenced to six years in prison. (Kent County Sheriff via AP File)

[Meadowoak]

1. Beavis, we're never gonna get any chicks.

[TrogL]

2. I've been involved in police investigations

They strive to "obtain a coherent narrative".

Eg, I obtained a weapon, went in the jewelry store, got loot, sold it to a fence for money.

I'm not seeing a coherent narrative here.

[old as dirt]

3. IMNSHO, this case is...

...even more important than the Jan 6 cases.

There's no real question of the federal government's ability to protect the US Capital, despite Jan 6. In fact, I have no doubt that any single site can be protected.

But there is a very real question of the ability to protect against stuff like this on a state or local level.

This is how civil society could quite easily unravel.

These would-be kidnappers need to go down. Hard.

[marmar]

4. Evolution hasn't been kind to everyone.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. It's frightening that there are so many more like him

Most have hare brained schemes like this groups, but there has to be a number of cells that are perfectly capable of puling it off.

Groups that have deeper causes than mask mandates and military grade equipment.