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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDaniel Harris is 1st Whitmer kidnap suspect to testify: What he said
(Detroit Free Press) After five of his witnesses refused to testify, defendant Daniel Harris took the stand in his own defense Wednesday, telling jurors repeatedly that he "absolutely" did not plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the summer of 2020 when he was a member of the Wolverine Watchmen militia.
Harris also testified about some of the most explosive testimony during trial: that he and a co-defendant built explosives as part of their alleged kidnapping plot.
Harris admitted that he helped build an explosive device and set it off, but played it off as a benign effort, one that involved blowing up a balloon in an oven.
"I was putting BBs and a little bit of gunpowder into this balloon, and we were going to blow up a stove," Harris testified. "We put it in a stove. We lit the fuse and we ran." ............(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/03/31/whitmer-kidnap-plot-suspect-daniel-harris-testimony/7228823001/
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marmar
Mar 2022
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just goofin around with friends. building bombs for fun. didnt do nuthin. golly gee.
bullimiami
Mar 2022
#1
I found an article that two men refused to testify and they don't have to apparently.
Demsrule86
Mar 2022
#5
bullimiami
(13,043 posts)1. just goofin around with friends. building bombs for fun. didnt do nuthin. golly gee.
brooklynite
(93,873 posts)2. How do witnesses refuse to testify?
Dr. Strange
(25,898 posts)4. I assume that they're the other ones who are also charged.
So I'm guessing they're just pleading the fifth.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)5. I found an article that two men refused to testify and they don't have to apparently.
gab13by13
(20,867 posts)3. Reading the link
it seems to me these guys are going to skate.
rampartc
(5,265 posts)6. "the fbi made me do it"
will convince the trumpists on the jury that this is all a deep state plot to make real 'murkuns look bad.